Wet n wild

Yesterday was a messy one in Collier County. Thanks to severe rain during the afternoon there were many areas that were severely flooded.  I was lucky that my route home did not take me through any of the areas that were impassable.  Unfortunately the drainage system in Naples is not very robust.

Of course when I got home the property was badly flooded.  My first thoughts were the chickens whom were out in the storms all day.  Luckily I had the coop and run closer to the house on higher ground so they weren’t in standing water.  The chickens were soaked however.  The wind blew the roof off the run and the sideways rain turned their food into mush.

The inside of the coop remained more or less dry but the chickens apparently did not seek shelter there.  It has seemed that they actually sort of like getting rained on for some reason.  I moved the coop all the way up the mound, next to the guest bedroom, where it would be safe from anything short of end of world flooding.

The deluge means any near term grass maintenance is not going to happen, welcome to the swamp.

Cindy has been dealing with an incredibly frustrating process trying to get her foot injury (probable stress fracture) handled via workmans comp.  She has been on a nearly two week holding pattern waiting to get the proper paperwork to simply allow her to get an MRI to confirm what X-rays indicate.    It truly seems like the master plan is to stall out/frustrate people to the point where they say f it and either don’t get treatment or they just pay it themselves.