That kind of rainfall is amazingly scary!
We're supposed to get some decent rain tomorrow, so I still haven't started the roses. Too busy digging out the drainage trench by the barn and repairing gutters out there, too. I know that once the moisture really gets going here we're likely to be wet almost continually until mid-December, and I don't want to be doing that stuff during that time! Mud gets heavy...and ladders perched in mud tend to topple.
In the past I've had issues with ladder safety...
...funny now, but not so funny then.