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Post by featherduster on Sept 14, 2008 6:09:40 GMT -5
Just in time for DUCK SEASON all the water you can haul.----BUT WAIT ----- Act now and we will give you twice as much as you can haul.
And all this for FREE.
It has not stopped raining since I last reported yesterday at around 5:00 pm.And looking at the radar I don't see it stopping anytime soon.I have not yet checked the rain guage but I would say we have had approx. 7-8 inches since Friday afternoon.
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Post by powderfinger on Sept 14, 2008 6:22:09 GMT -5
LOL...Havent had a drop south of Indy. Looks like that will change soon though.  Got a 1:30 tee time at Otter Creek |
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Post by featherduster on Sept 14, 2008 8:39:44 GMT -5
If there was a OTTER CREEK near here it now be OTTER LAKE.
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Post by schall53 on Sept 14, 2008 8:52:44 GMT -5
Where are you located featherduster? I'm in eastern St. Joe co. over 5 inches so far in my gauge and as you know more on the way.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 14, 2008 13:05:56 GMT -5
I am located approx. 5 miles SW of Laporte near Union Mills. Iam located in a area that has several lakes and marshes and when we get rains such as this it settles in these low areas and takes days for if to filter in.I just pulled up the radar and it appears the rain should be ending in the next few hours.If this rain were to continue much longer then that I would have to get a pump out and pump the water from my front yard and driveway over a small hill into my marsh. as it is now it will take several days for it to drain down.
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Post by bomonster on Sept 14, 2008 13:28:46 GMT -5
No Thanks, we have plenty. We're under flash flood warnings here in Jasper and Benton Co.'s
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Post by featherduster on Sept 14, 2008 20:49:27 GMT -5
The rain stopped around 4:30pm.The wife and I got out the 3''pump and about 180' of discharge hose. I put the pump in a johnboat and set it up in my driveway which has about 30" of water on it. We ran the pump for about 2 hours sending the water to our marsh.
you can hardly tell we pumped.Next year I will probably install a drain tile with a stand pipe so this never happens again.Never had this problem till last year when the farmer across the road used a road grader and removed the grass breaks in that field.Now the water from that field runs right down a long hillside to the road and across the road onto my driveway.
So much for soil conservation.
The funny thing is tomarrow the local newspaper is coming out to our property to do a story on building and owning a wetlands. Boy they could not have picked a better day because the marsh is flooded to the hilt.And so is my driveway!!!!!
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Post by schall53 on Sept 15, 2008 8:14:49 GMT -5
Well the rain finally quit, basement flooded, ditch went over the bank and completly flooded a 20 acre soybean field. Final tally is 9.8 inches in my gauge. Looks like it's going to be a fun fall !!!
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Got a 1:30 tee time at Otter Creek 
