texasjohn
Super Member
You guys are right... it can rain and flood and thats a royal pain. I am sensitive to your plight... didn't realize you were experiencing a 100 year type flood when I made my post. It is no fun to have flood water in your living quarters.
I am fully aware of the power of water and the distress it can bring. I grew up on a ranch with a river running thru it... thus constantly had to be aware of weather and possible flooding. I have often ridden horseback hard in the cold, rain, dark to round up cattle/sheep/goats off of the river before a flood arrived. My grandparents spent the night in a tree while a flood washed thru the house (it was rebuilt on higher ground). I have spent as much as two weeks cut off from being able to get to any town/doctor/groceries without electricity and phone because of flood and waters over the gravel river-crossing to the highway.
I've been there... which is why I always choose to have my house and pens out of the 100 year flood plain... and local flood prone areas as well.
I wish everyone the best possible outcome from the current rains in the north east.... send some of that rain our way!
I am fully aware of the power of water and the distress it can bring. I grew up on a ranch with a river running thru it... thus constantly had to be aware of weather and possible flooding. I have often ridden horseback hard in the cold, rain, dark to round up cattle/sheep/goats off of the river before a flood arrived. My grandparents spent the night in a tree while a flood washed thru the house (it was rebuilt on higher ground). I have spent as much as two weeks cut off from being able to get to any town/doctor/groceries without electricity and phone because of flood and waters over the gravel river-crossing to the highway.
I've been there... which is why I always choose to have my house and pens out of the 100 year flood plain... and local flood prone areas as well.
I wish everyone the best possible outcome from the current rains in the north east.... send some of that rain our way!