A river runs through it.

That’s a good description of my front yard., as I write this. Well, my backyard, too.

I was lucky, though, during last Thursday’s deluge. After seeing photos of what other residents in Pickens County and across the Upstate endured, I really should be thankful.

We live on relatively high ground, but we still get a pretty good gully-washing when these big rains come along.

It actually used to be a lot worse than this. It used to gush right straight at my front steps, even with a normal rainfall of half an inch or so, and it washed away all my grass.

That was after the city of Easley, in its somewhat less than

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