Another MESS!

[Chuck Leeper]

RANT ON!
We just got hit w/ 6+" of rain in <2 hrs...Shop, house garage, storage bldg, w/ 3-6" of water standing in them.
Must of had at least 35-50,000 gallons in the ft yard...Worse than pissed off. The hillbillies @ the county maint, refuse to keep the ditches pulled. Flooding everywhere, due to runoff that can't be handled.
Next: Rent a hoe, and put a ditch at the ft of the property that will handle a typhoon.

RANT OFF...

 

[charlief1]

Had the same issue this spring Chuck. I ended digging around 30' of ditches in the yard so the water would divert from the back yard. The fun part was that I did it while it was raining, and by hand. Used the dog pen fence to pile the dirt in case the trench didn't handle it well enough. Instead of pooling in the back yard it now goes around one side of the house and into the field. Now I just need to figure out how to keep it from washing the driveway out if it happens again.

 

[trixdout]

Florida got some crazy heavy rain as well. Very outside of the norm of a 15-20 minute downpour. Some places got well over a foot of rain.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

Looks like I'm going to have to:
1. Remove a section of the drive, and build a bridge over it. Currently, there are 2 - 18" culverts there, and still can't handle the flow.
2. Dig and remove about 275' of 18" culvert the previous rednek installed in place of the roadside ditch... NO WAY it will carry the downpour we just had.
Claimed he was tired of cutting the ditch w/ a trimmer. Lazy
It's about a "wash" as to which is more expensive...This is the 4th time in 8 yrs.

 

[INEEDAGN]

Next: Rent a hoe

I thought that was only legal in vegas...

 

[Chuck Leeper]

I thought that was only legal in vegas...

I think it is.
Except where Charlie lives, then back hoes are legal!

 

[aminga]

I think it is.
Except where Charlie lives, then back hoes are legal!

Don't want to see a picture of a back hoe.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

Don't want to see a picture of a back hoe.

I guess I shouldn't have put "back hoe" and "Charlie" in the same post!! He'll see it, for sure, and we'll all get the picture.

Sorry, Alan

 

[aminga]

We went to my dad's last weekend and came back to an upstairs A/C that had overflowed it's condensate drain. So we're in the midst of a forced remodel

 

[Chuck Leeper]

We went to my dad's last weekend and came back to an upstairs A/C that had overflowed it's condensate drain. So we're in the midst of a forced remodel

DAMN! Just when you had some bucks put away for a new turbo, too!