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[ronott1]

Mom...make it stop.




Har har.....funny.

(I was getting major stink eye for taking pictures)



This is what 4" in 2 days does. I couldn't get back to the coop at all.

Knee high irrigation boots! That is what we use for going through muck like that.

 

[ozexpat]

This is what 4" in 2 days does. I couldn't get back to the coop at all.

yikes!

We get 84" (7 feet) of rain a year but because of our sand not soil, there is never a pool of water for more than an hour or two.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

We are flooded right now.


inside woodshop.

in front of the woodshop. That is a chicken tractor with the BR rooster in it.


the driveway OVER the culvert. Usually the way I get back to the coop in rainy weather like this.

Look closely. The rushing water by that back tree is water being forced through the culvert.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You need an ark. That is horrible. I should send you my ducks. Then at least someone would be enjoying it.

 

[ronott1]

We are flooded right now.


inside woodshop.

in front of the woodshop. That is a chicken tractor with the BR rooster in it.


the driveway OVER the culvert. Usually the way I get back to the coop in rainy weather like this.

Look closely. The rushing water by that back tree is water being forced through the culvert.

That is terrible!

I hope you come out of it all ok!

 

[Arielle]

oZ what a wonderful complex-- looks like apartments for one. I'll take one with nest boxes please.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

It's 430 pm and I just got back in from the latest check. The water in the ditch is not at least 6" below the top of the little foot bridge. Flowing nicely. DH used his kubota this morning, in the rain, and cleaned ditches. We were both in our jammies and raincoats.

(It weren't purty)

Drainage is so bad on this place, and the previous owner went and messed it up worse. We are slowly getting it corrected though. DH spent the $$ on a new kubota with a back hoe and loader bucket. His work on the drainage has helped tremendously! I hate to think what it would have looked like previously. Looking around the place, most of the buildings not on footers, have water/flood damage about 8-10" up the walls. I suspect from previous drainage mismanagement. We are in a low spot as it is.
We have gotten over 4" in the past 24 hrs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Are you going to start filling sandbags? Post a picture of hubby in his PJs running his Kubota?

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Dang...why didn't I think of that then??!!

 

[gryeyes]

It rained today. Not very much at all... California needs a whole lot more than this piddly dribble. Moxie, send yours to us, will ya? We'll figure out what to do with it all. (I really do feel for you, honestly.) One more trip in a friend's vehicle on Monday: to drop me off at the location where I pick up my new-to-me Toyota 4-Runner! e It's an old one, but well-maintained AND refurbished with new, important stuff, like brand new tires, battery, timing belt, other things... The mechanic is even gonna give me lessons on how to operate the four wheel drive. My friends who took me out there to check it out are jealous they didn't find the deal when they were looking for a good foothills vehicle. However, having met the seller, they now "have" a mechanic they feel they can trust. And he has another customer. (He will probably have yet another customer in my other friend-who-provides-me-rides, who is taking me there on Monday.) It is a stock 4-Runner, but one of the more "loaded" models (leather seats, cruise control, really nice radio, power windows all around) but not raised or tricked out like Flatlanders pretending to "need" to go four-wheelin' off-road. Really nice brush guard, so if some suicidal deer decides this is its perfect crossing moment, there should be less chance of catastophic front end damage. It's got a freaking moon roof! Which is why I pick it up Monday- the switch failed to close it as we checked out all the features. Opened up REAL nice, though. I must admit I am having trouble getting my head around the concept of cruise control on a vehicle without an automatic transmission, though. Is there something that comes out and slaps your face when it needs to go into a different gear? I guess I'll get that explained on Monday....