rain called on account of game

[boxofdelights]

Aiko and I learned that our usual walk to the river is a fair bit shorter today.

Neal's backyard looks like this: His house and barn are at about the same elevation as the stone quarry shed you can see across the creek, so not in danger of flood.

There's no way to get to the airport today, so he walked down the road to the low point where it crosses the creek and saw:

The barn was holding young alpacas who did not want to be there but really did not want to walk through the knee-deep water surrounding it to get to a higher spot.

Neal and other neighbors offered their pasture and hay, and helped lead the alpacas out.

Comments

[j00j]

Yikes! Hope cleanup after the flooding isn't too bad.

Also, the alpacas are adorable. <3

[malnpudl]

Good man, Neal. :-)

I can't help looking at that huge and very expensive and very ruined stack of hay. Yikes. A lot of people are going to be hurting in an awful lot of ways.

But yay for alpaca rescue! \o/

[boxofdelights]

Yes, after the rain we didn't get this summer, that hay would have been very expensive.

[susanreads]

Wow, I hope some people have insurance. I'm glad the animals were rescued.