My internet service has finally come back on-line, after Hurricane Irene. I’m not sure just how much rain I got here, but it rained for over 24 hours. Here is a photo of the pond, after the hurricane …
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do, as I lost access to the Internet for 4 days. As you can see in this photo, most of my trees are still standing. None of my buildings or facilities were damaged. I hope everyone else fared as well.
Hello Doug…
You’ve answered all the questions I posed in my note as a comment in your first Drought report. Pond is back in shape. How is the claypit?
The claypit is unaffected, since it is always covered. The little cleanup pool next to it has been replenished. I’ll probably go out and try out the claypit sometime in the next week. I’m pretty busy, getting caught up with work, at the moment. I have taken several dips in the pond, these last few days, as I’ve been cleaning up the yard and it’s been pretty hot. The pond water is fresh and cold.
Did you get into the claypit yet? Oh, yes…how is the turtle pond after all the rain?
Friends here were constantly asking about your house and property. They were watching the Weather Channel, which was desperately trying to make Irene into the hurricane of the last 1,000 years!!
Had some fun ins some upper thigh deep squishy sand at a rock jetty about a mile down the beach. Sank in almost up to my stomach…and if you stayed still and didn’t move, the sand really set in and held my legs…getting out was interesting. Right now we have really high surf…8-10′ swells coming in…the surf is hugh…biggest this summer…and rather dangerous to be in…in fact, I haven’t seen any people in the water on the evenings I went running.
Cheers
The turtles are happy. The storm wasn’t severe, but it was large. I was surprised at how much damage it did do, but then again, we haven’t had a storm in about 10 years, so there were a lot of trees that were waiting to be “thinned out”.