Yipes... It has been a nice preview of summer this past week, but we paid for it with several thunderstorms and a serious rain storm last night. We are at 2.3 inches of rain since midnight, and just coming to a close. 4 inches of rain in 3 days now! The previous rain came in giant downbursts in thunderstorms that left 0.75" in one case in 15 minutes.
I know for you guys down south this happens often, but for us up here in NY is is not all that common. The pond struggled with that much water.
I had to get up at 3:30AM and rescue the driveway from washouts (long uphill driveway) and plug the culvert that directs water into the pond to cut back on flow. The pond was spinning like a giant whirlpool, and the outflow was eroding the backside of the dam! I couldn't tell what was going on under all the water last night, but a decent hole was forming where there shouldn't be one. I got a good look at it this morning, and I see a load of heavy stone in my future.
I'm lucky that I can direct the drainage that goes into the pond along my driveway if I wish without harm, but I still didn't sleep too good last night :-(.
It has been a long, crappy week as my mom passed on Tuesday from a 7 year battle with ALS, and this isn't helping any.
The only positives are I am getting some nice fresh water in the pond for swimming, and the fish are getting some good exercise swimming against that current.
