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Geez Sunny! I'm so sorry! This a rental right? Has the landlord looked at it? I hope so. I haven't seen my landlords or heard from them since 3 weeks after we moved in and Bill was still alive. I'm just lucky I found the payment info after he died. I've decided I'm done with fixing too much here. I'm going to do just enough and hopefully still be able to find my own dump to fix up. Please be careful! Don't know how strong your winds were. I had 55mph I think and my backyard has a cyclone fence and no wind brakes at all and those little hoop coops held like champs. A metal bed frame I used to hold a tarp down from the rabbits was at least 4 ft away from the cages. The regular shaped units got hit pretty hard. Hope they stay safe for a long time. I'm really really sorry about your Pea!!! I'm glad you found the others though.Not so well here. We have a lot of erosion damage from the storm and our peafowl coop was blown completely over and is now sitting on it's roof (this is a very heavy 8x8x8 coop). The coop split open when it flipped, killing one of the peacocks. The rest escaped but we found them and now have them in a temporary coop until we can get theirs fixed. My Dad says the front yard looks like the start of a mini grand canyon (IDK about that but it doesn't look good) in several places and the driveway has washed out at the top so we are having to take it very slow when we cross this area. Can't get the washed out areas fixed until things dry out. Right now bringing in any tractor would just collapse the whole area. This is where we drive and park so we need to avoid any further damage.
I kinda expected some of this since the top of the drive had no culvert and the road is trenched on either side. Didn't take a genius to see that rainwater would have no where to go except over the driveway. The berm that is collapsing had nothing to keep it from sliding during a storm but the amount of rain we got during this storm is almost unheard of in these parts. This is high desert and our annual rainfall averages 8" a year and this time of year it would usually snow, not rain. Heavy rains combined with our sandy soil made for a bad combination.
I bought the last 4 bags of sand at HD today. They said they'd have more in about an hour, but I haven't even broken these open. Thought I was gonna die lifting the first bag onto the cart and had to have one of the guys there load the last 3 and get them in my truck. I used to be able to press 180 lbs. I'm pathetic with a #60 bag of sand! LOL All these bags are for the dog run. I'm going back to get 6 more for them, just to be safe and several to fill the coops. I did buy some supplies for feeders to.I overfed last time, but if I can't get up for longer than this time, I'd hate to think what would happen.
Everyone else doing OK? Looks like Sunny and myself are the onlyest ones checking in!!!??? Let us know how you guys are.
