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02/03/2004: "Treading Water"

I had to work on my own most of the day; the other sexton had lost his heat in the night and spent the day trying to install a new furnace. it was a nasty, late winter day; the rain froze when it hit the ground and there wasn't a thing I could do about it. I salted for show but it didn't hold. After I'd been home for an hour I was called back; the basement had flooded. As I drove back I saw theat the snow had plugged all the storm drains in town, and the roads were flooding although it wasn't raining that hard. The same at the church: The gutters, downspouts, and leaders were full of ice, and the ground was frozen or saturated. The water had nowhere to go but inside.