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What's outside of your picture window today?

Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 8 2:18pm | Replies (2400)
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Sometimes your window doesn't offer a view you want to see! Due to efforts to clear old-growth forest above our acreage over 20 years ago, our pretty little creek is now a huge marsh that floods whenever we have a storm. This is the earliest and worst so far, and water running off the hill kept coming into the back of our house until I not only increased the depth of the existing surface ditch but added a couple more. I HATE having the pantry floor an inch or more deep in water!!!! Yesterday, I waded across and bought a wet vac and lugged it back across, only to learn that my ditching efforts had paid off and the water was slowly receding in the pantry. Prepare for the worst, so that you may get the best!

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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | Nov 13, 2021

Oh my word, what a pickle that is. I am glad to hear it is draining.

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joyces | @joyces | Nov 13, 2021

Crazy that, after over five months without any measurable rain ON THE OREGON COAST(!!!!) and being on alert for fire evacuation, that we're now seeing all the rain we had wished for all spring and summer! Today, the creek on our place has dropped quite a bit, is more easily wadeable, thanks to the City having pumped out a large basin downstream plus a halt in rain today that stopped the waterfalls coming off the hillside above our house. Imagine: an entire day where I haven't had to mop or try out the new wet vac! More rain is due at any minute, however. I'm cautiously optimistic that I may be able to drive my car out in a few days...hate not having a car. Then, I know that for weeks the driveway will be under water or so soft I can't drive on it, so I'll be parking a quarter-mile away (nearest solid wide spot), carrying groceries across the creek and up the hill to the house. It seems that the hill gets steeper and longer every winter...how does that happen?

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