The rain...

When finally the rain did hit it hit so hard and so fast that it created a leak inside the tent that I have and that I thought was somewhat waterproof unfortunately came into the corners as I would say river turtle and then form itself going at a diagonal across the 10th floor to the back of the tent where I had to cut a hole in order to create the exit point for the river itself which then filled up the sand underneath and created a lake both inside and outside of the tent the rain came down so fierce that it went through the rain fly so internally I created a inside roofing from two tarps I also had typed up the northern side of the walls on the outside but unfortunately the The rain came down so hard that within I would say two or three hours there was probably at least an inch or two and that may not seem like much when you’re out somewhere else but when you’re sitting on top of a swamp on the other side of the levee next to the Mississippi River even a half an inch coming down fierce and hard certainly creates a Maki situation and flood light conditions so when this shit it wasn’t so much the cold as it was dodging water everywhere as I began to string ropes and began to move everything off of the floor and create at least a 2 inch barrier of everything that would get wet or could get wet standing on top of it seem to me that all the test that I’ve had never seem to be on able to handle the heavy rains that I run into I now have in mind my own set of modifications I’m going to do to attend that I’m going to purchase that even though I like this big can’t and I got it at a real cheap price I’m going to get a tent and modify it to where it works for me especially on the Mississippi river or anytime of kayaking so what’s the range did begin to let up some unfortunately no real sunshine still didcome and it began to rain in the middle of the fog now that I found interesting because it was foggy and yet it was raining I’m not quite sure how that works and less it was raining from higher up in the fog was Lowground fog but either way everything was getting wet except for me sitting underneath tarps inside at times when the rain would let up I walked over to the Mississippi River and where I had landed originally was already more than a foot underwater yesterday and by the time the rains let up it was Now 2 feet underwater at the time of this recording the Mississippi river is up according to a local that lives here right next to the levee is up 3 1/2 feet higher than what it normally is it this time of year that tells me a lot it also explains why there were so many logs floating downriver moving rather quickly and why barge traffic seems to been held up for the last week between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and why I have three Ocean trawlers sitting just off shore for me with the fog and with the rain I managed to get my writing journals where I am doing hand writing journals going and so even though their appears one journal entry here on Blogger I have four more pages already done and had written on both sides sooner or later I’ll scan them in when I have more battery time and sunshine