Sunday, October 4, 2015

The drywall and mudding are done, the house is painted outside and the metal roof is on the dormer.

 

Here's a distraction - major flooding.  We have crumpled streets and destroyed dams in our area. 

Our Spring Valley upper lake has overflowed through a neighbor's yard, across the street and through my next door neighbor's yard and into our lake.  This is lucky because it likely saved our dam.  The two dams on my lake are fine so far but the lake is at least 3 feet above normal.

This is my neighbor's driveway and the drainage ditch that runs between our lots from the street down to our lake.  For 30 years, in heavy rains we get maybe six inches of water in this ditch which has scoured to 3 feet deep over the decades,  It's full now and then some.  You would not believe the speed either.





 


 


 







 
This is our yard, if you look closely you can see a brown line.  That's the top of our sea wall that has 12 to 24" of freeboard normally.  Hope the boat doesn't float away.





Some are calling it a 200 year storm.

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