The goats are gone, but we still have chickens, guineas and two dogs (one of which is Brisket - who was born in 2008... and Chops, born about 9 years later), one pig (Mimi).
When you have a farm and you flood as extensively as we have, there's a certain depression that goes with it - and the inability to think that anything you create isn't going to be flooded out. In that regard, it is difficult to find the energy to fix fences or to clean up the debris - even from 2007, our first flood that destroyed stuff.
This time, on Halloween in 2015, the water came from the dam water being released upstream. Which means instead of pouring through our barnyard, it simply rose from the ground. It took six hours to get home that day, and when I did, everything was fine. Mike and I went to watch a movie and when we came back downstairs, the water was four feet high and threatening to come into the house.
So we have decided to move, retiring to a different place that doesn't flood.
I hope it works out. It will take us about four years and a lot of money to finish and extricate ourselves...
When you have a farm and you flood as extensively as we have, there's a certain depression that goes with it - and the inability to think that anything you create isn't going to be flooded out. In that regard, it is difficult to find the energy to fix fences or to clean up the debris - even from 2007, our first flood that destroyed stuff.
This time, on Halloween in 2015, the water came from the dam water being released upstream. Which means instead of pouring through our barnyard, it simply rose from the ground. It took six hours to get home that day, and when I did, everything was fine. Mike and I went to watch a movie and when we came back downstairs, the water was four feet high and threatening to come into the house.
So we have decided to move, retiring to a different place that doesn't flood.
I hope it works out. It will take us about four years and a lot of money to finish and extricate ourselves...
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