Well my pond is now full and it survived Ivan

"Roy" wrote in message
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Its actually more than full as the stream came up so high it was
higher than my ponds spillway and it flooded into the pond. Water was
within 3 inches of going over my enclosure and I was sweating it for
awhile. Its starting to recede now so thats a relief. All its going to
cost me is a new pump oif I can't fix this one. In all the years I
lived here and lots of heavy rains hurricanes and storms the water has
never gotten up as high as it did this time, and I had thought my
pumps sublevel house was ore than sufficient to keepo water out of it,
if the pond or creek rose up......wrong, pump was under more than a
foot or water. Gonna give it time to dry out after I take it apart,
but its gonna have to set for awhile as the house and property comes
first.......Old Ivan managed to dump 19 1/2 inches of rain on me in
less than 12 hours time.........and wipe out over 2 dozen mature oak
and long leaf pine trees, and those are just the ones I am gonna have
to finish taking down. He knocked quite a few done all the way. Most
are in the 100+ foot tall range.........
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Yipes! I can't imagine how you managed to not have more damage to your pond.
Good luck. I'd loan you my 18" chain saw, but you are quite a distance away
from me. Glad to see that no one was hurt. Was expecting to see some of that
rain, but thankfully I live a little west of the storm track (Louisville) for it
to have much influence. We are expecting less than an inch today, but eastern
Kentucky is supposed to get drenched.

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:50:03 -0400, "George"
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===Yipes! I can't imagine how you managed to not have more damage to your pond.
===Good luck. I'd loan you my 18" chain saw, but you are quite a distance away
===from me. Glad to see that no one was hurt. Was expecting to see some of that
===rain, but thankfully I live a little west of the storm track (Louisville) for it
===to have much influence. We are expecting less than an inch today, but eastern
===Kentucky is supposed to get drenched.
===


I have a natural pond approx 1 acre in size with an enclosure so
other than debri etc getting in thr pond or it filling to high so when
the stream comes up and overflows back into the pond, and have it
possibly get higher than my enclosures top, its pretty well
troublefree and safe..........

Thanks for the offer onthe chainsaw, but I have quite a few as I used
to do tree work on the side, and just view this cleanup and removing
all my trees that have been damaged as a typical job without pay, heck
I am retired and in no hurry, so it will give me something to
do.......got my holes in the roof patched until insurance adjuster
checks it out, so other than replacing some fence and cleaningup and
cutting trees, life is pretty well back to normal routine around
here.......
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"Roy" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:50:03 -0400, "George"
wrote:

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===Yipes! I can't imagine how you managed to not have more damage to your
pond.
===Good luck. I'd loan you my 18" chain saw, but you are quite a distance
away
===from me. Glad to see that no one was hurt. Was expecting to see some of
that
===rain, but thankfully I live a little west of the storm track (Louisville)
for it
===to have much influence. We are expecting less than an inch today, but
eastern
===Kentucky is supposed to get drenched.
===


I have a natural pond approx 1 acre in size with an enclosure so
other than debri etc getting in thr pond or it filling to high so when
the stream comes up and overflows back into the pond, and have it
possibly get higher than my enclosures top, its pretty well
troublefree and safe..........

Thanks for the offer onthe chainsaw, but I have quite a few as I used
to do tree work on the side, and just view this cleanup and removing
all my trees that have been damaged as a typical job without pay, heck
I am retired and in no hurry, so it will give me something to
do.......got my holes in the roof patched until insurance adjuster
checks it out, so other than replacing some fence and cleaningup and
cutting trees, life is pretty well back to normal routine around
here.......
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That's good to hear. I looked at your pond site, and I must say that I have a
really bad case of pond envy.