Wow, what a series of catastrophes. So sorry about all of it! Praying for you. Sincerely hope you can land back on your feet with great success.
Honestly I cannot believe you managed to get so much poundage of fish crammed in a half acre pond. That must be some kind of record unto itself. It must have been absolutely heaving with life. I can only speculate what went wrong, but it would be very interesting to get a better understanding.
A thought that comes to mind is how we would feel in a house that had so many people shoved in it. You would never got a moment’s peace. Can’t sleep well, fighting, smelly, jostling, annoying people… just unpleasant. Well fed perhaps, but low quality of life. Did they simply give up out of desperation? Recent experience has showed me LMB are quite intelligent with little personalities.
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That level of rain is something to behold, it’s like having an entire pond dropped on you at once. I experienced a rain like that years ago, before we had a pond. A slow moving storm parked itself right over the house. It filled a 8” rain gauge to overflowing, so we don’t know the final amount as there was some water in it before this event, about 2”. It did its damage in a small area. My neighbor’s long 0.5 mile driveway downhill went missing, nothing but a deep gulley. It lifted sheds, trees, any spare backyard items and put them halfway up trees miles away. Amazingly it only flooded basements, no injuries, except for two idiots that went for a boat ride in the flood waters and just stuck up in a tree and needed a rescue when water receded quickly. No, it wasn’t me, though if I had a small boat at the time, I would have considered it. My wife and I were unscathed as we are on a hilltop. Thank God.
Some years are like this, it too shall pass. Concentrate on your health and well being first, faith will guide you. Then learn from mistakes and try again. Very happy you are still here, drop in more often!
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