Monsoon Enough
6/29/07 - 5th Day - Mid-Day. Monsoon rains continue here in the end of June. As most of you know, the flooding has been much, much worse in some places south and east of here. We received another 2 inches last night to add to the 3 inches yesterday bringing us to 8 inches since last Thursday morning. Here is my yard:
We probably received only 10-12 inches all last year, with 5 inches of that coming in March during Ranchfest, which means we have received more rain in the last week than we did most of last year. Last year we had to stop watering the garden when the pond went dry in August. Here is the garden this morning:
Well, with all the rain, we discovered a "spring" of water running into my root cellar. It wasn't coming in from the walls or cresting the entryway, it was springing in from under the stairs, about 3 feet down. We had built a dam above the root cellar to stop and divert water from running into it, but it turns out the dam was holding back enough water to create a pond right in front of the entrance to the root cellar. The water was seeping down through the ground and was coming out in the root cellar. What to do? Well, this morning I decided to break the dam further down to divert the water out of the new small pond and away from the root cellar:
It seems to have done the trick, but we won't know for sure for some time. In the mean time the root cellar is a muddy mess and will be fun to deal with for the next month or so. Again, the good news is that we have done pretty well here, and the drainage and creeks on the land seem to be doing their jobs. The temperatures have been unseasonably cool (thankfully), and no helicopters have to come and save us, thank the Lord.
Peace,
Michael Bunker
We probably received only 10-12 inches all last year, with 5 inches of that coming in March during Ranchfest, which means we have received more rain in the last week than we did most of last year. Last year we had to stop watering the garden when the pond went dry in August. Here is the garden this morning:
Well, with all the rain, we discovered a "spring" of water running into my root cellar. It wasn't coming in from the walls or cresting the entryway, it was springing in from under the stairs, about 3 feet down. We had built a dam above the root cellar to stop and divert water from running into it, but it turns out the dam was holding back enough water to create a pond right in front of the entrance to the root cellar. The water was seeping down through the ground and was coming out in the root cellar. What to do? Well, this morning I decided to break the dam further down to divert the water out of the new small pond and away from the root cellar:
It seems to have done the trick, but we won't know for sure for some time. In the mean time the root cellar is a muddy mess and will be fun to deal with for the next month or so. Again, the good news is that we have done pretty well here, and the drainage and creeks on the land seem to be doing their jobs. The temperatures have been unseasonably cool (thankfully), and no helicopters have to come and save us, thank the Lord.
Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday |
 81° F | 68° F 27° C | 20° C |  82° F | 66° F 28° C | 19° C | 85° F | 68° F 29° C | 20° C | 86° F | 67° F 30° C | 19° C | 88° F | 69° F 31° C | 21° C |
| T-storms 40% chance of precipitation | Chance of T-storms 50% chance of precipitation | Chance of T-storms 40% chance of precipitation | Chance of T-storms 40% chance of precipitation | Chance of T-storms 30% chance of precipitation |
Peace,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 6/28/2007 10:27:00 AM
1 Comments:
Bless ya'lls heart. We talk about how your doing almost every day.
Judy and David
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