Flooding & Frustrations

This past weekend Winnipeg was hit with our first real summer storm, and it has had quite the impact on our fair little riverside city. The city is reporting that we received over 10cm of rain on Saturday alone - that's more then some month's total average precipitation. Kinda crazy, huh? The massive amounts of rainfall lately have raised the waters of the Red River, which is now at nearly the same height as it was during this years spring flooding - and as a result the lake behind my house is suffering just as much.

I've been lucky and so far the basement hasn't shown any signs of flooding. I've heard of many others who were not so lucky however. It definitely makes me glad that I have flood insurance. 110mm in one day...that's almost unbelievable.

While I have so far been safe from flooding, I have been less lucky in other aspects of my life. I've found certain parts of my life have begun to give me daily frustrations. Unfortunately these annoyances are the result of decisions made by others, and all I can do at this point is make the best of it. I nearly reached my breaking point the other day and thankfully no one was around to see it. I think perhaps I need to take up meditation or something similar so that I can focus my building frustrations into something useful.

On a positive note, I had a pleasant surprise on my way home yesterday. I was rather miserable after a grumpifying day at work, and came across a row of flowering bushes. With all the rain that we've had lately the flowers had bloomed almost overnight and the air smelled sweet. I snapped a (slightly blurry) picture after a brief moment of pausing to relax.

I'm glad that I was able to enjoy something positive out of the rainstorm that has afflicted us...