Arg! That sucks. I feel your pain and frustration.

We got our heavy precipitation lately in the form of snow. 15 inches in 4 hours, then another 6 inches over another 12 hours. Now it is just sitting there, on the ground surface, not doing anyone any good apart from being pretty. I still need to get my swimming float dock out of the deep pit that is my unfilled pond, it is still down too low to get it out. There was a nice skim of ice on the pond this morning already!!! Not ready for this. Too soon!