SEEKER FLOODED

Hi gang,

This will be my only post today. I've been patching levies, bailing water, and such since 6 this morning with no end in site.

Cool stuff last night. I left something at the Eiffel tower.

Can't wait to share with you.

Later...

Man am I tired. 11 hours.

I'm cold, wet, and just plain sick of water. I'll read a little here and then I'm going to get a hot shower, a nice glass or two of wine, and then sit my butt down!

What happened?

Hard to beleive it has been a month since that happened. Here's the setup:

I dug out and blocked my basement about 20 years ago. There was a gap between the new wall and the old foundation, and dirt below it.
Our neighbor has pine trees across the street from us. I think our gutter clogged with needles.
We had a very hard rain, something like 2 inches in a few hours. I think the gutter overflowed dumped he water into the flower beds next to the house, water seeped in between the walls.

Welcome to Maine. :D

I'm glad I'm not in Maine. Right now, it is 31 degrees here. I expect it is a lot colder waaay up there!

It's about... um... 2 degrees. No joke; I just checked the guage. We're in the middle of a HUGE storm system right now. Gotta love the rain/snow storms. We're even getting thunder! Basically everything is cancelled and closed today, except for the mall (which takes an act of congress and a human sacrifice to the evil god of retail to close). My mom and sister are happy, though. They don't have school today.

it's like 67 degress here.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Shawndow
it's like 67 degress here.

---

Must be nice. :-P :finger: :-P

Oh no, all that water... oh man. That really sucks, Seeker. Go curl up in a warm blankie next to a fire with a good book, you deserve it. :D

Funny, but this post is a month old!! :)

I forgot the really scary part!

I worked in our basement for a couple of hours while my wife tried to call her parents. They live next to a small creek that runs between two mountains. Usually, it is about 6 inches beep and 12 feet wide, but that morning, oh man!

There is a bridge below their house that had a 6 foot diameter culvert. The creek got up to about 6 feet and then a big stump lodged in the culvert pretty much making a dam.

Then the water overflowed the banks. For years my father-in law had been piling rocks, dirt, and debris along the bank to make a sort of levy.

The levy is about a foot above the bridge. This time, the levy broke!
You all remember the footage from several years ago when the Mississippi river flooded? Looked like that!

We spent a good while trying to patch the levey and build up channels with boards and cinder blocks to turn it away from the houses. Unfortunately, it got into my wife's grandmothers house.
Worked on that for an hour or two and then went back to work on my basement.

It was coming in so fast that I had to stop occasionally to let the shop-vac cool down.

I've never seen that creek get up to high.

The next day when the water had gone down, the earth looked like the surface of the moon. The water has scoured all of the grass from the topsoil, theere was mud and rocks everywhere. What a mess. Last time I saw something like that was the big flood of 1976 in Harlan Ky.

I guess it takes a month to get any sympathy here. XD

Ouch! That hurts Su-Chan! :shock: I never even saw this post until yesterday! :wink:

Aww, I'm only teasin'. I didn't even see it until today, so there :wink:

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Shawndow
it's like 67 degress here.

---

71 here. t shirt weather. plus im still running my bronco with no top :chuckle: to bad i broke the drive shaft while urban four wheel driving last night, now im forced to drive the honda :damnit: but yea, i havn't seen rain in a loooooonnnnnggggg time. and i havent seen snow since i was 6....

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Su-Chan
Aww, I'm only teasin'

---

I know :wink:

:)