We had two local teens working this morning and made some progress on the mud in the barn! Gradually, things are appearing from under the mud. Many things can be salvaged with a little washing. Some, of course can't. I'm trying to list the losses for our taxes next year! The biggest may be the Prius. We'll not know about that for a while yet. Robert took more stuff out of its innards again today. I didn't do any digging, just washing.
Word has it that one of the houses that was hit hard last Wednesday was hit again with the storm yesterday. People worked to clean out the house all day yesterday and after they went home another mud slide hit the house.
Another neighbor had their well filled with mud. They spent the day digging that out and then discovered the board holding the pressure tank was rotted and down went the pressure tank. I think they have been able to retrieve it, but I don't know what shape it is in.
Today, two folks from the Deep Space Exploration Society (DSES) came up to help. But, we under threat of more storms so they spent most of their time looking at Robert's solar system and carting away some extra batteries that Robert was donating to the club. They are the outfit who have taken over the 60 ft. dish at Haswell, Colorado.
I think I am getting used to the fact of the barn and that cleaning it out is not going to be finished this week nor next nor the next. We'll gradually rescue stuff. All the dry food in the freezer is fine. That is the food I store in case we can't get out of here for weeks. That is rice, beans, flour, sugar, etc. I also had gallons of water. At least one has turned up from under the mud.
That's the story from here for now.
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