Looks like the word "water" was added on after the sign was printed

I thought this sign was funny. We’re in a zillion-year drought and this sign sits on the side of the road, rain-free day after rain-free day. I had a draft blog post in my mind, already. I was going to write something along the lines of “the only way I would see water on this road is if someone dumped their water jug on it and I happened by before it evaporated.” Oh, yes, it was going to be funny.

My driveway is under there, somewhere

Three days after I took that photo, it rained. We got 7.36 inches in about 5 hours. I couldn’t get a photo of that sign with water over the road because I couldn’t get out to drive there. In that 5-hour downpour, our ponds went from bone dry to overflowing. My driveway was under water — flowing water — and I wasn’t about to risk having my vehicle get swept away. How embarrassing that would have been to explain to a tow truck driver that I needed my turned-on-its-side vehicle extracted from a mud pile a few yards away from my driveway. Instead, I waited four hours after the rain stopped before deciding the water level was low enough and that it was flowing slow enough for me to drive across safely.

So close, yet so far

That rain also eroded the sides of the culvert that was under the road, some yards from the end of our driveway. The county workers came and blocked off the road. I figured this out just as they were removing the barriers from their trucks and putting them across the road. I was about 25 yards from my driveway, but I couldn’t get there from where I was. I turned around and took the back way in, adding about three miles to my route.

With the road blocked, I had to leave a few minutes earlier in the mornings in order to take the back way to get to work. The county replaced the two old culverts with four new ones and opened the road late Friday afternoon. That was nice.