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Yesterday morning I made it over to my garden in the morning to work for a few hours staking up cucumbers, pulling weeds and chatting with the eccentric old man who has the plot next to mine. As you can see one of my sunflowers is in full bloom.

My other summer plants are doing well. I harvested my first cucumber yesterday – not the one pictured above, he stayed on the vine to get a tad bigger. Clockwise from top left: Boston Pickling Cucumbers, Purple Cherokee Tomato, Green Bean sprouts and Sungold tomatoes.

Anyway, I made it out of the garden and to downtown Boston for some shopping before the torrential downpour started. I didn’t realize there were flash flood warnings in effect, the streets downtown weren’t even flooded for the volume of water that was coming down. Evidently there was an entirely different story playing out in Somerville, just a quarter mile north of our condo. Here’s a video someone took near Union Square, outside our friends’ warehouse which was innundated with several feet of water yesterday afternoon.

Yeah, it was quite the adventure for Somerville residents yesterday. We got a report from our friend (who seriously lives 1/2 block north of us) whose basement flooded with two feet of water, killing their power for a little while and their hot water heater. During the storm water got backed up in the city drains and started bubbling up like a fountain out of their toilet and bathtub. And evidently an underpass in Union Square was completely flooded and the city of Somerville sent in a dive team to make sure no one was trapped in their cars. Crazy. Luckily everyone is fine.

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