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It is inconveniet,
In a nearby town the firechief is missing. He went to assess water levels . His truck is there and the wonder is did he fall in and get swept away?
 
Tabitha said:
It is inconveniet,
In a nearby town the firechief is missing. He went to assess water levels . His truck is there and the wonder is did he fall in and get swept away?
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Yikes! Hopefully he's ok.

We did have a mini thunderstorm here, glad it's cooled down. I fell asleep on the couch rather early. Windows are all open. Was awoken by drilling like noises. Someone is working on their car, still at it. It's currently 12:30 am. o_O

Tons of typos in the post that I fixed. Might be more. Probably a signal I should get to bed!
 
If the storm predicted for yesterday afternoon, evening and into the night was anything like it was feared to be it must have arrived late and I must have slept sounder than usual. Yes, we did have some fairly steady rain, and a few gusts that could be described as heavy, but I'll have to wait to hear the reports to find out if it came anywhere near the 50 cm or more that were predicted.
I will check on the flooding along the river on my way to church.
Clouds and sunshine for today. More rain throughout the week.
 
Seeler said:
but I'll have to wait to hear the reports to find out if it came anywhere near the 50 cm or more that were predicted.
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Cm or mm? Rain is usually measured in the latter, snow in the former. We did get about that much over the last day or two and the Thames was incredibly high for May when we drove over the Lombardo Bridge yesterday. More like April after a heavy melt than May.
 
Tabitha said:
It is inconveniet,
In a nearby town the firechief is missing. He went to assess water levels . His truck is there and the wonder is did he fall in and get swept away?
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My friend's daughter lives in that town. She called her mom to tell her that she was okay. The reports about that firechief are about what a good and giving guy he was.
 
My son says there is flooding in his town-an hour or so upstream from us. Misplaced sandbags reduced flooding at the Mercedes dealership but increasing flooding at the Ford Dealership. Cars were moved as the water was up to the door level. Lovely footpath washed away. Again just an inconvenience.

Not as serious as those missing or even the homes evacuated.

After church I am off to the Owl rehab open house.
 
Mendalla said:
Cm or mm? Rain is usually measured in the latter, snow in the former. We did get about that much over the last day or two and the Thames was incredibly high for May when we drove over the Lombardo Bridge yesterday. More like April after a heavy melt than May.
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how silly of me. Yes, it should be mm.
 
Ahhh ... no rain today - at least so far! But cold. So I bundled up & headed outside anyway ... got lots of weeding & edging done in my front beds. Had some lunch ... contemplating whether I'm up for more ...

Watching a bit of Sister Act while eating ... too funny - Mother Superior saying to the nuns (dressed in full black & white habit) as they enter a Reno casino - "try to blend in"!
 
Tabitha - sorry if I missed something. Did you say that you are going to rural south India this summer?
 
This summer I am off to India to volunteer at a health centre serving a "low resource" area (aka poor). I will be supervising 4 OT students from McMaster in Hamilton Ont.
 
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This past weekend two guys were killed in a car accident near Killarney Provincial Park. I went to school with both, one since grade 6 and the other through high school. I did not know either well and while I am saddened by the news and so sorry for their families, for me personally it has made me think of our mortality.

I was discussing with my bf and a friend and we all agreed that in some ways, death is more expected as a teen (drinking and other accidents) and then as you approach 65+. But, for some reason none of us really though about death and people we know dying in that middle area. It is a sobering thought and one I am still pondering.
 
Tabitha said:
This summer I am off to India to volunteer at a health centre serving a "low resource" area (aka poop). I will be supervising 4 OT students from McMaster in Hamilton Ont.
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Interesting!! I would expect you'll feel like you aare in a whole different world - so different from the one you are used to. My son sends me pictures of Korea and of some of the other places he's visited, along with occasional travel logs describing his impressions of the countryside and the people (even on vacation he doesn't just do tourist). My neighbour taught school in an African country and every so often she is invited back to spend a month or so with the people she met there, and working at the school. (I look after her two cats while she is away.) When home she spends her time in retirement volunteering with refugees and the multicultural society.

Please share your experiences with us back in Canada.
 
Greywolf336 said:
This past weekend two guys were killed in a car accident near Killarney Provincial Park. I went to school with both, one since grade 6 and the other through high school. I did not know either well and while I am saddened by the news and so sorry for their families, for me personally it has made me think of our mortality.

I was discussing with my bf and a friend and we all agreed that in some ways, death is more expected as a teen (drinking and other accidents) and then as you approach 65+. But, for some reason none of us really though about death and people we know dying in that middle area. It is a sobering thought and one I am still pondering.
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Greywolf, I extend my condolences on the loss of your friends.
It is true that after you reach your senior years you really notice your friends getting older, having health problems, hip or knee replacements, vision loss, hearing difficulties, strokes, heart problems, type 2 diabetes, and yes, dying. At first its those in your group who are older than you, but then it's your contemporaries, and you look in the mirror or come home from a medical appointment and realize that it's happened to you too.

But it happens in middle-age too. One of my best friends back then died of her second heart attack at age 40. My nephew had a brain aneurysm in his forties. And far too many young women die of breast cancer while still raising families (I know, my daughter had a difficult struggle with breast cancer). She's past her five year survival by a couple of years, but I still notice every obituary for a young woman. Death is all around us. We can try to ignore it, pretend that it happens to other people, not to people like us, people in our age group. But it is always a possibility.

Live life to its fullest in the here and now.
 
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