Ha Lew John and Bunny! Both sound like solid plans! It's amazing the extra wildlife that is around with all of the standing water!
Astro, this is only our 3rd year here, we had no clue what would happen on the property when the river crested, we are pleasantly surprised that it appears to go around us, an island in the stream, there are three forks the river splits into here as the floodplain and we are between two, PHEW!
Alan, yeah we have as much insurance coverage as we can have and flood isn't included. We knew what we were getting into, the old owner was very up front and the basement is set up so that we can have about 2 ft down there before we really need to start worrying about anything inside, there has been a house on this spot for about 40 years now so I think we will make it as long as we keep pumping!!
So morning update, it snowed overnight, there is about 2 inches on the ground and I'm kinda thinking that is a good thing, at least it is sitting on top of the ground instead of adding to the saturation right away lol.
The road on the other side of the bridge is closed, the 3rd fork the river takes has taken over the road over there, all towns down river are having issues with closed streets and flooding.
We did some math and we are up to 21,600 gallons (give or take a few) pumped out and no sign of slowing down yet... I was up until 3:30am keeping watch, back up at 6:30 with Mr Rabbit because the cat decided that if Mr Rabbit is up so shall Mrs Rabbit be, this is going to be a long day!
