It's been awhile since I've caught up on BC and this thread, but I'll say it's good to see a few names popping up saying they are okay. I have wondered for days how others are fairing in all this mess. Mt.Margie a shout out, old hens stopped eating eggs thanks to your advice...yeah, going back a long way, I know.
We are just getting phones and internet back and while I live off grid and rough it in an old pioneer way (no running water, electricity), having communication to the outside world is wonderful!!!!
We live outside Estes backed in against RMNP side of town up on a mountainside. Even up as high as we are we still had troubles. Water, water every where! almost flooded the coop and took it off the mountainside and down the river below us! 2-3 feet in the coop Friday night! My poor hubby, an engineer, was setting up diversions and checking on them all night long for two nights, as he watched the water destroy everything he did to stop it. Our gals survived though! They stopped laying in all this, ugh! But they made it, just in time to start molting in a few weeks!
Our barn isn't as flooded, but fared well. Hope the hay is safe, but probably lost the lower whole level...and yeah, with the hay prices these past few summers, it would be nice if something would change that, but I'd rather have a little rain than all the devastation! My poor daughter confessed that she had been praying for rain for good last cutting for us to buy our last needs for the year, and was thrilled when it started raining, then after seeing the hole in our road, big enough to swallow a car or two, she started praying for it to stop! She's 9.
Our biggest issue right now is having no road to get in or out of our place, but so thankful to have my family be safe and no loss of animal life. Coming months are going to be extra hard with clean up and hauling water up here with no road...but we are blessed and have much to be thankful for.
Glad to hear others have made it through this craziness.
I am so glad you guys are safe. I was wondering about you as well. I do not know if it would help, but we have a pack saddle and paniers if you need them (and the horses) . The road fix is easy? with a chainsaw and covering it with timbers like how they used to in the pioneering days.