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Rick Kr

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If you recall an earlier post, I planted all my trees Easter weekend and needed rain bad, the ground was dry 30 inches down (depth of my tree spade). Well.... fast forward to last Thursday.

The storms dumped 5.5 inches of rain Thursday night. And it dumped FAST!!! Lost power or course, luckily got the generator going. Water was coming in the sump pump faster that the pump could take it out. 2 inches of water in the basement. The wind lifted a couple of sqaure of shingles off the barn and snapped off a few trees. My house looked like it was surrounded by a moat. I built the house up 6 feet, other neighbors that didn"t had water running in their basement windows.

The good... The daughter and I got in the row boat at our pond, rowed across the yard to check on the neighbor, rowed to his garage! Then took a nice little boat ride through 400 acres of freshly planted corn covered in 2+ feet of water.
I"ll try to get a pic posted.

Oh, and the trees I planted got watered!!

Rick
 
We are in the middle of it with you. Just southwest of the Flint airport and really don't know how much we got as the rain guage holds 6.5 inches and it ran over. Good thing I didn't have anymore planted than I have. It will definitely be a do over situation. Thankfully, no water in the basement but the sump pump got a good flushing out. Trash man comes tomorrow and as you drive down the road there is a lot of rolled up carpet where many were not so fortunate.
 
Ya,and they're sayin heavy rain again tomorrow. Looks like last year all over again.
I guess as long as it isn't like TWO years ago all over,when we had snow on Mothers Day.
 
Over here on the other side of the lake, it's about the same thing. We got 3/4 of an inch one night, and the next day I dumped out another 4.1". It's raining again today, supposed to be atleast another 2".

In town they flooded and a few people are getting new cars because of it. My road had water over it, and so did all the other roads out. At the farm, water ran over the culvert and washed out a bunch of gravel on the lane, so we'll have to pull what we can out of the ditch and probably get in a load of gravel to fix it. I still haven't seen our drive through creek crossing up the road, when I went up there the water was a good 5-6 feet deep and running fast. Was going around a culvert sized too small right next to it so hopefully it didn't wash away much of the stone on our side.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Hey Lyle,
The backhoe is working pretty good. I have two pins on the loader that the previous owner replaced without zerks. I have to knock those pins out and drill/tap them for zerks.

Seems to have plenty of power to dig with a 30 inch bucket in normal dirt. I imagine it would struggle in July/Aug around here when the clay turns to concrete.

Rick
 
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