The White River peaked through Indianapolis last night, having set new records at seberal measuring stations -- but never quite overtopped the levees.
That was scant comfort to the people on the river side. Oh, they knew the bet, but when it's your home, a once-in-a-century flood still feels unfair. Ravenswood, Rocky Ripple and few other locations will be a long time drying out and taking stock of what they've lost.
Successive waves of heavy rain keep sweeping through, keeping the flood higher than predicted. It's still dropping, just not as fast as we'd all prefer.
On the personal hobby front, I decided I could string my off-center-fed dipole ham antenna on the other side of the house from where I had planned, away from the neighboring house that got partially crushed. There's going to be a lot of activity over there by and by, and one end of that antenna would have been barely inside the fence line. It was a possible complication nobody needs -- especially not me. I managed to get the antenna in place in the new location, but I haven;t run an coaxial cable to it yet. That will take a little planning and a new hole in the wall with a special fitting.
Tomorrow, I plan to go back to work. Way back in June when all of this started, I tried twice on successive Mondays to go back, and had to give up before putting in a full day each time: too much pain, too little energy. I'm doing better now. Maybe not a hundred percent, but I may not get that again. 85%? 90? I'll take it.
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