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MadamButterfly90 wrote:

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In all honesty,I wish I knew the answer to that question. So much going on. The days are a blur.

Look at it this way, Angie. With so much activity it leaves little time to get down on the negative things that might be happening. It gives your mind something else to do. I'm sure everything will come out in the wash, as the old saying goes.

Well, my family was lucky in that besides my sister and brother-in-law, whose basement had to be totally gutted and redone, (the joys of home ownership), nobody got hit very badly. The ground continues to be very saturated around here. It's been a very wet summer in a part of the country where we're usually talking drought during the summer months. It doesn't take a whole lot when it rains to flood the streets, particularly if it rains hard for just a few minutes. There are some residents, though, who are angry because just recently during a brief, heavy storm, their basements got flooded just as equally as bad as before. There is some street construction going on nearby, and most people think that has something to do with it so they're crying foul at the Public Works Department.

Most of the trash and junk that was left for pickup during the big flooding in June has finally been picked up off people's curbs, so that's finally good to see. That was becoming an eyesore.

What's on people's minds now is the EAA. Oshkosh's big deal of the summer; a yearly airplane mega-convention that draws hundreds of thousands of people to our city over the course of a week. It's coming up very shortly, and there's always worry about how the weather will impact our local tourism/economy if Ma Nature decides to get nasty during that week. EAA is really our city's bread and butter. A lot of our local busninesses depend on it, particularly lodging and restaurants. The Depp movie was nice, but this is Oshkosh's big money maker.