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Hey forest! Glad to see you're still with us! We were worried about you for a while there. I guess if you have had flood training when your only other option is to displace all of your breathable air with sea water, knowing you'll at least be able to breathe no matter how high the water gets would be a relief. Many of us land lubbers would not have handled the situation with the courage and grace you have demonstrated. Should you find you have any immediate needs please let us know. I'm sure we can help you out. Hopefully you and everyone else in the flood will be eligible for some disaster relief. You all very much deserve it . In the interim remember you have lots of friends here who are more than willing to lend you a hand. Please let us help if we can. I can be in Argyle in about two hours with a pick up full of anything you need.
Hey forest! Glad to see you're still with us! We were worried about you for a while there. I guess if you have had flood training when your only other option is to displace all of your breathable air with sea water, knowing you'll at least be able to breathe no matter how high the water gets would be a relief. Many of us land lubbers would not have handled the situation with the courage and grace you have demonstrated. Should you find you have any immediate needs please let us know. I'm sure we can help you out. Hopefully you and everyone else in the flood will be eligible for some disaster relief. You all very much deserve it . In the interim remember you have lots of friends here who are more than willing to lend you a hand. Please let us help if we can. I can be in Argyle in about two hours with a pick up full of anything you need.
I do appreciate the offer, thank you.
As for public 'disaster relief', nobody died here; and while I do not know yet the total sum of property damage. So far we have lost three laying hens, $18 of fuel for our fire pump, $34 for a replacement network router, and $24 in replacement plumbing. Our hens have been stressed enough that they have pretty much stopped laying [but our refrigerator is full so I am glad].
I think that it is just going to take elbow grease to clean up and to fix things.
We are looking at this as an adventure, and a few stories to tell.
As for public 'disaster relief', nobody died here; and while I do not know yet the total sum of property damage. So far we have lost three laying hens, $18 of fuel for our fire pump, $34 for a replacement network router, and $24 in replacement plumbing. Our hens have been stressed enough that they have pretty much stopped laying [but our refrigerator is full so I am glad].
I think that it is just going to take elbow grease to clean up and to fix things.
We are looking at this as an adventure, and a few stories to tell.
Your optimism is infectious! The offer stands. Good luck in drying out and keep us posted. I look forward to the photos!
Your optimism is infectious! The offer stands. Good luck in drying out and keep us posted. I look forward to the photos!
Yes, indeed it is... and it is not just for the written word on the page either. When we stopped by the day after the "great chicken rescue" they taking their breakfast outside while the pumps worked away inside, enjoying the day, planning and hunting eggs.
But I think it is more than "just" optimism... I am sure his military training figures in, but more than that, it seems just practical... there is no percentage in focusing on what has befallen and what cannot be changed.
Here are the kayaks tied up. When I tied them here, the water was still twenty feet away.
This first one looks like before I swam out to un-tie the kayaks. Below the kayaks five feet is the stake marking last year's high level. This was before the river got too high.
Another view of our kayaks, this time taken from our parking lot.
I am not sure why a photo of our doorstep is important but here it is. We have black stepping stones, so that normally during the mud-season we can avoid the muck. Later we stacked concrete blocks on top of these to form a path to dry land.
The front of our house. Our first placement of blocks to use as stepping stones, submerged. You can see where part of the path is above water and the rest is 'gone'. I had to repeatedly add more concrete blocks, to maintain a path so Dw could go to work.
Also notice how close my Dw's car is to the water. She did not want me to move it. When the front tire was in the water, she finally agreed to let me move her car.
I had not realized exactly how messy our front yard was:
Route 116 a couple miles South of us:
This is the top of our goat sheds:
Taken from our parking lot, Anne and I go paddling out on 'Operation chicken rescue'
An unhappy rooster being released from his rescue:
Anne doing something:
Concrete block is a stepping stone on top of our normal stepping stones, a firehose leading out the front door pumping water, and the rising water is lapping at the threshold. Maybe only a 1/4 inch layer of water flowing in at this point.
Anyone home?
I took this from a kayak, at about the location of our embankment, which marks last year's high level.
The rear of our house, lean-to chicken coops and a walk-in chicken coop.
I hope that if ever I am in a similar situation, I can react with the grace, wisdom, patience, courage and fortitude that you did Forest. You seem to be the type of person that most of us would want for our friend and neighbor.
Forest, do you think your radiant floor tubing is all right? Sorry you and your family are having to go through this I do not like it when bad things happen to such good people.
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I do not like it when bad things happen to such good people.
