Flooding. A troublesome problem for property owners, driving, and less so for insurance companies that adore excluding it. Worse so for below ground constructions as those can be harder to determine the situation until it is catastrophic.


Which was why the Underland tunnels under Funderland had light in them again. Circe was doing an inspection of the areas that had previously been visiting.


Her first stop was stairs leading to the flooded areas. Because she was sure that'd get worse. And it had. If Circe had to slowly navigate past the rats to step off the stairs, and many rats there were. At the corner she went no further, for is she did she'd have found her feet in water from all the rain. Not that she'd feel it, knee high waterproof boots for this trip thanks. This was the crest point for the Sacramento River, according to the weather report at any rate, and it hadn't even made it to the first step of the stairs.


Circe didn't see a problem. It did confirm the flooded zone hit the river, but it wasn't that much of a rise to her eyes, so probably not a big entrance. Cresting the shaft wasn't a big deal to her, so she'd go no further to inspect. Not because the rats were fishing for some of the smaller eels, no not due to that.


The West gallery's old toilets? Not flooding over, so no problem there. The bridge and East gallery? Dry.


The poop deck? still sealed and not leaking out, so no problem. Nor did she hear or see any water coming from beyond it. Smelled a LOT better too.


And what about the gallery's other entrance? Circe didn't hear anything like rushing water from there. Nor did she smell sewage, so no big deal.


Just in case though, Circe decided to do something about the gallery entrances. The Western Gallery was elevated, no problem there. The Eastern Gallery had all entrances sloping down into it. One of which had a cesspool.


Circe had to go back to the first intersection and haul over the wheel barrow she'd left there. With the sandbags she'd added as a precaution.


The Groundskeeper only hand enough to leave a single layer at each entrance, but without warning signs it wasn't a concern to the Larcenist. Though really, someone should check out the tunnels. Maybe give the noobs walkie talkies?