Everybody remembers the ‘freshet of 2018’…it was a once-in-a-100-year event, right? Well, it seems not so much. 2019 proved to be almost as bad along our shore. This year, the wind and the waves were an added bonus, damaging houses’ exteriors and flooding cellars and basements yet again. Heck, even the cellar-dwelling country mice were running for higher ground! But, before we move on, let’s take a step backward and ‘reminisce’ about the eventful days in May of 2018.
The freshet started out like all the others in many ways. Along our shore, anywhere from about the 15th of April on, the prophetizing and the predicting begins. ‘Oh, it’s gonna be bad this year’. ‘Nah, this one isn’t going to amount to anything’. Or, you might get just a shrug of the shoulders from a seasoned local. But whatever your persuasion – pessimist, optimist, fatalist, or adventure-seeker, we are all armed and ready to do battle with Mother Nature and the mighty St John and Kennebecasis rivers.
I’ll spare you the gory but exciting details; suffice it to say, those two weeks in 2018 were a nail-biting, sleep-depriving, hero-making time of neighbours coming together and strangers turning into friends, with community pride and a determination renewed. Here are some of the pictures from The soon-to-be christened High Water Cottage in 2018, so named because, well, you probably get it.
And so, after two years of ‘the new normal’ , our humble abode is movin’ on up….almost 6 feet up, to be exact. We’re gonna ‘raise the roof’ (the whole cottage actually). Starting today, like a bug to a butterfly, our previously unnamed little house is about to undergo just a little change ;). High Water Cottage is about to be born. Stay tuned …..
High Water Cottage 
Great start to your story.
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