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Post by linda on Feb 14, 2005 14:39:40 GMT -5
Any updates? We usually get flooded in about once a year. The entire county road becomes a lake. We live on a hill so we just stock extra food and sit back and relax. Actually, it is kind of relaxing to be flooded in. You don't have to DO anything. There are no decisions to be made about going out to do anything--that is not an option. The mail doesn't come--nothing upsets your equilibrium. As long as the phone lines continue to work (for us computer addicts) life is just fine. You just sit around, take care of the critters and chill out.
I hope it quits raining soon. You can send it this way--have it fall as snow in our mountains.
Linda
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Post by Chrisnstar on Feb 14, 2005 15:28:47 GMT -5
Well, we've got sun again and nearly 70 degrees today,. But it's supposed to get cold and cloudy and chance of rain again tomorrow...  I'm hoping it will hold off so we can get some drying going onhere. Doing chores is just the pits. Sucks my mud boots right off my feet! chris |
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Post by linda on Feb 14, 2005 15:57:06 GMT -5
I know what that boot-sucking mud is like. I don't think there is anything I hate worse than that. Nasty stuff. And when everything is flat, there isn't much you can do to avoid it. Maybe those 70 degree temps will do wonders for your mud.
Linda
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Post by Chrisnstar on Feb 14, 2005 16:18:43 GMT -5
It was awful last night when I was trying to take a bucket of soaked beet pulp to Star's bunch. The bucket made me that much heavier and I'd get stuck fast and hard in the mud. It was hurting my knees and hips to try to wrench myself out of the mud. I almost pitched forward face first in it several times... ugh, I hate this stuff...
We've got real heavy clay here. If it's just a little bit wet, it's like grease, slippery stuff. If it's really wet, it just sucks you right down to China. If it's really dry, it's like concrete.
chris
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Post by linda on Feb 14, 2005 16:32:19 GMT -5
If it ever becomes possible, at least make yourself pathways with the geotextile fabric--actually, I think you could use the nylon woven feedsacks for a walkway--under about 4-6 inches of gravel. We "turnpiked" our driveway--built it up about 12 inches above the rest of the ground.
I feel your pain. We had a huge gravel truck stuck here in the mud trying to get backed up across the fabric. We put this stuff down on huge, wet, soggy mud ruts. But once we got it down, it has been dry and mud-free ever since.
Sending you some drying thoughts....
Linda
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Post by Chrisnstar on Feb 14, 2005 19:38:59 GMT -5
I plan to Linda, but finances are horrible right now. It's going to have to wait awhile... sigh...
chris
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