Mud

It has been raining lately. Not a lot, but just a bit each day. I think it rains at night when we are sleeping. But a couple of days ago we had a big rain storm. It rained for maybe an hour. So that caused flooding in the city. All the drains are flooded and the sewers back up. Streets are full of water for a day. And now they are full of dirt. It was mud, but it dried to dirt. Our street seems especially dirty.

The other bad thing about rain is the sewers. Like I said, they get blocked or flooded. So you will see piles of sewer mud all over the city. Someone has to come along and dig into the sewer, but they just leave the piles. So it gets stinky. We have a few piles on our street. Spot is attracted to those piles.

And the other nasty part of the rainy season is that when the sewer is being unplugged, they often times leave the manhole cover off. Especially if it is flooded. So you could step into what you think is ankle deep water and end up in chest deep sewer scum. That happened to a friend a couple years ago. Ever since then I have been extra careful in the water.