Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[chickisoup]

Wow! That is so ME in the morning!

 

[chickisoup]

Here it melts and seeps into my cellar.  3 sump pumps will be running 24/7. 

Before I had my septic redone, all the water would flood into the septic system so that a risk of a poop flood in my house greatly increased. Ah yes! How I miss my house being flooded with poop!



But nope, the water doesn't sink into the ground up here. The ground is frozen solid and can't absorb anything. How bad it gets, depends on how fast the snow melts in relation to how fast the ground thaws and the drainage ditches reappear.

I often get a solid inch or two of water flooding my chicken shed. Some years I can get a foot of water over my driveway. If the snow and ice on the road melts, but the giant berms on the sides of the road aren't melted yet (so almost every single year) then rivers of water run down the driveway and any unpaved road causing very soft spots. Some years the soft spots can be large enough and squishy enough to suck in cars up past the hubcaps. With paved roads, all of that water tries to flow directly under the pavement, since all culverts are still full of ice and snow. That water causes giant pot holes to magically appear.

We call that season "break up" since the ice, and the ground is breaking up and becoming a giant muddy nasty impassible mess.

Some years break up can be only a single week, other years it can last for six weeks.

Like Alaskan said. There is a reason I have my coop floor 2 feet above grade. Even though we are mostly sand, before thaw we have a low spot in the backyard near the coop that literally floods into a lake as well as one at the end of our driveway that gets too deep for a normal car to get thru then once the ground thaws the driveway is a muck hole for several days.

 

[3goodeggs]

Again, I am sorry that we only get hurricanes and heat.
Poor Alaskan gets earthquakes. lava flows. snow storms, ice sheets, poo flood, and mud season. .. and vole pee.
We should take up a collection.

 

[sourland]

Vole collection - everyone try to catch as many voles as possible, and then we can send them all to Alaskan.

 

[Alaskan]

Vole collection - everyone try to catch as many voles as possible, and then we can send them all to Alaskan. 

Bad Sour! Tsk tsk and all that.


3goodeggs,


We also get ash clouds, tsunami, and sporadic electricity.

I never get thunderstorms, thunder, tornados, or lightning. I almost never get heavy rain, usually just misty drizzle.

 

[ronott1]

It is 3:50 and I need coffee!

 

[Bunnylady]

Vole collection - everyone try to catch as many voles as possible, and then we can send them all to Alaskan.

IDK, could you get in trouble for transporting voles across state lines without a license?

 

[sourland]

Doesn't everyone have a vole transport permit?

 

[chickenlady772]

Dunking donuts for me. Been on vacation this week and daily sitting in the morning with the "girls"

 

[sourland]

Dunkin' Donuts happens to be one of my periodic addictions.