We had big rains some years ago and Angie asked if I was worried about flooding. I explained that if we flooded Boston would be 900 feet under water... Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:03 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: My house is on high ground. After dealing with 4' of water in my basement in Chicago, I will never buy on low ground again. Somehow the furnace was OK but I had to replace water heater, washer, and dryer and throw out a lot of stuff that was stored down there. Allan On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > Went out to the shop just now and it’s got an inch or 2 of water in it. On > the back side of the shop there is an overhead door that I never use. In the > pasture behind that the water from the back average drains in that area > toward the road. There is some dirt work done next to the shop, basically > they built a small levee behind the barn and shop to direct water toward the > road instead of in the shop. The problem is there is a space about 5 feet > wide between the backside of this and the shop that water will pond and if it > gets up to the door will come in. I have not seen it this bad before but I > have been meaning to see if I can get an angle blade for the tractor and cut > a ditch at the end of the shop to let this water drain out toward the road > instead of getting deep enough to get into the shop. The closed overhead door > on the opposite wall was holding water in so I cracked it open to allow it > just flow out the other side. I need to solve this problem ASAP so this does > not continue to happen. Water also runs thru the barn which I would like to > stop. It also has this levee behind and to the high side of the barn but > still gets water thru it. I think it’s runoff from the roof. For that I’m > probably going to need to haul in some dirt to build up the level of the dirt > floor inside the shop so water does not come in. After it does, it’s > literally a mud pit in there. > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
