Posted by Rick Kr on May 06, 2012 at 06:28:58 from (66.238.169.170):
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.
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