| LIFE The water is angry this morning...
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How'd you fare?
TerryP
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I may have lost one Crepe Myrtle...partially uprooted and leaning on the fence. (Lavender bloom, love the color.) As soon as it dries up a little (still standing water in the back) I've got a friend bringing my "come along" back ... going to try to prune and save.
Overall I got lucky considering they were saying we were looking at 6-7" of rain and I got a little over 2".
It'll flood for the next two or three days with high tide.
If the root ball is still intact, you may be okay. They're pretty resilient. Other than maybe the back of your property (isn't there a drain between you and the next street over), flooding doesn't affect your property, does it? Pain to get around, potential disruptions...
TerryP
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No. There isn't a drainage area between the properties. The neighborhood was designed for the water to flow to the back and then out of the area but when they developed the last corner lot it screwed all of that up (so much added soil.) We didn't realize it until about three years later—literally, went a couple of years without a serious rain.
I've since installed a pump system in my back...laid PVC pipe from the back all the way to the front ditch and have a sump pump buried to drain the back. The pump kicks out a little under 8000 gallons an hour. The back is just about drained. The rain stopped about 5 this morning.
The biggest bitch about the pump is the neighbors grass clippings clog it up occasionally. Imagine standing in pouring rain and trying to clean it out—hint, you can't.
Glad you are safe and had no major damage.
That is a pain. What type of screen do you have on the drain cover? If it's flat, consider replacing it with a cone-shaped one. More area for water to enter, and less likely to clog in a single event.
TerryP
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The tree came from Middleton, right? Young, off shoot of one of theirs that's, well, old. Wild thing here, Tim. That damn thing has righted itself. It's about a 20' tree, too tall for its age IMO: shot straight up when it was transplanted from the plantation.
It's screened on the lid, with a "fence" built around it that's about 4X4 made of the window screen material. Yet, trash still gets in.
The sump pump basin is 38" deep...I ended up having to dump a bag of Sakrete in the bottom just to get it to sink low enough to be flush with the ground...water table, even in dry months, is less than a foot most of the time.
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