Totally effed in these parts

[Particle Man]

Flooding all over my area.

I was lucky with just some water damage. Others were not so lucky and lost homes, cars, etc...

[Rangerscott]

Send it here please.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Send it here please.

Send your avatar here please.

OP: that sucks man

[LeeNetworX]

Sorry to hear, James. Hope it gets better for you up there.

We're getting shittons of rain here this year, too. Luckily, flooding isn't an issue in our area. It's all ending up in Lake Lanier, which is still a foot above full pool but has been as high as 2-3 feet above. First time I've seen the lake where it wasn't 6 feet or more below. Everything is growing like crazy, too...especially the weeds.

[CasterTroy]

Pre-emergent FTW Lee End of Jan and end of may


We're 6" OVER for the year. 4.25" over in Jun alone. We've not had a summer without a drought in almost 18 years.

This is the first year since the days of first owning my own yard, that it's not been brown and dead/dying in June from heat/drought

Hope you're drying out Prtcl!

Zoomy, are you on a well or county water as well? or do you ONLY have tanks? Do you rely on rainwater? Or do you have a tank on a trailer that you run to fill up then dump in your tanks at the house?

The more I hear about your house the more I wanna come just to see it and your "estate"

[LeeNetworX]

Tru-Green puts it down every Winter/Spring. It's not the grass where they are growing it's the landscape beds. Need to find something that kills the weeds without harming the plants (haven't found anything that doesn't harm the plants yet).

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

Zoomy, are you on a well or county water as well? or do you ONLY have tanks? Do you rely on rainwater? Or do you have a tank on a trailer that you run to fill up then dump in your tanks at the house?

The more I hear about your house the more I wanna come just to see it and your "estate"

ONLY tanks. No well and we are too far out for city water. We have 20,000 gallons of main storage with a 500 gallon pre-wash. That storage is triple filtered (paper filter, charcoal filter and UV light) with a pump to the house. I also have 1000 gallons of unfiltered that is gravity fed to the garden.

I can have water delivered - the services out here only charge for the diesel to have it delivered. They don't charge for the water. So, about 2,000 gallons are about $65.

We are putting in a pool after a wildfire scare earlier this year. That means not only a pool for us, but an added water source. Adding shade and wind turbines... http://bionovanaturalpools.com/

Speaking of estate, I have new neighbors that just moved in from California. I haven't met them. It's pretty rare out here to have someone stop by to say hello, with the gates and "Private Property" signs and all But, I got a call from our Constable one afternoon:

C: Hey, are you out shooting this afternoon?
Me: Yes.
C: You have a range, right?
Me: Yes, why?
C: You have new neighbors just South of you, right?
Me: Yes. Again, why?
C: [with a bit of a giggle] They just called 9-1-1 to report attack-like gunfire.

The funny part, it was just me, on my range with my 9. Just target practice BANG-TING
BANG-TING
BANG-TING

no rapid fire, no mass amounts of shots. Attack-like.

Sorry for all the OT, y'all drying out up North yet?

[azoomm]

Yes. Please send it down here.

We are lucky we had enough rain come through a month ago to nearly fill my water tanks. Now.... Not looking like we are going to get any anytime soon.

[Rangerscott]

Just got done with a tonder storm. Just enough to wet the yard.

['73 H1 Triple]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Flooding all over my area.

I was lucky with just some water damage. Others were not so lucky and lost homes, cars, etc...

Sorry to hear but at least you're OK.

One of the guys in upstate Pa on the cub cadet forum got hit pretty hard. His 86 year old neighbor got washed down stream. That doesn't look like a good ending.