the water is wide

Well, hell.  As I expected the Forked Deer has cross my road on the by-pass end.  Yesterday it was passable by truck but not today.  I watched as my neighbor went by with a boat to take his kids to school.  His father in law is bringing a tractor so that we can get out in an emergency.  I cannot tell you how many times we have lived this scenario.  The north fork of the Forked Deer river surrounds this farm and actually, the entire southern part of Dyersburg.  Hwy 51 business through South Dyersburg is underwater as well.  So is Hwy 210 from Fowlkes to 412.  From my house I can see the water glistening in the sun!  Deja vu.

This is my first flood at this house.  I lived about a mile away when the big one came in 2010 and that was a humdinger.  Water was halfway up the hill on the road to my house and stayed there for days.  I remember Lauren and I walking down to the dairy barn for a good look and it was massive.  The water eventually got so high that even a tractor could not get through.  We are used to it just like the residents of Southtown.  One of the problems is that the Forked Deer feeds into the Mississippi and it is rising as well.  We shall see.  

I have watched a lot of the protest videos and it gave me a little happy moment to see all those folks standing up.  Of course there were counter protestors saying ""Long live the king!" but that's part of it.  It was all peaceful from what I have heard and seen.  There is power in numbers and now is the time to stand up or go down with the ship.  Hopefully Congress will step up and do damage control.  You know, mid terms and getting primaried and all that good stuff.  

My trolls don't read this blog obviously or they would be all over it.  Most of them cut and past their own narrative or share memes rather than reading anything that resembles critical thinking.  They follow whatever he does and say hell to the yeah.  I am not a follower in that respect.  I read news from both sides of the aisle and it appears to me that Republicans are kind of worried about our state of affairs.  Yet not many of them have the balls to stand up.

So, here we are on a Marvelous Monday.  Y'all be safe and do the next right thing ^j^