The rain came down in buckets Thursday — a real old-fashioned Southwestern Virginia gully-washer.
I didn’t see the approaching clouds. Had my head glued to a video monitor editing a documentary but a building-rocking rumble of thunder sent me to the window of the studio to see sheets of water falling from the skies.
This was the first hard rain since regrading my driveway with the new DR PowerGrader. How, I wondered, would the surface hold up under the pounding rainfall?
I drove home with a mixture of hope and dread. The rain had just ended as I turned off Sandy Flats Road and headed up Greenbrier to check out the driveway.
Everything was fine. No ruts, no dislodged gravel, no erosion. No need to hook up the grader and do any repair work when the water dries.
Sumbitch. The thing really works.
Glad to hear your Power grader worked. Nothing worse than having to re-do the driveway when it’s full of ruts. Perhaps you should give lessons to the Missouri DOT. They’ve failed to grade the potholes on our dirt road properly for the past four years. They just fill ’em with limestone chat and wait for a rain to wash it back out.
I remember when we were on vacation in Virginia a couple or three years ago. We were going to stop in at your studio and meet you, but Hurricane Ivan had different plans for us. We barely managed to get out of the storm path as we fled Virginia for Tennessee. Maybe we’ll get to meet someday. We sure loved the area of Virginia where you live. Beautiful.