FLOODING Pt-2
Talking about flooding.... it's been raining now for two days, all day yesterday, last night and all day today. At this point we received 2.75 inches of rain and by this evening will be at 3 inches if not more. It's not really how much rain we get, but rather how fast it falls. I've seen as much as 5 inches fall without us being flooded, but take that 5 inches of rain and have it fall rather quickly, we would get flooded.
As I said before, we live only about 50-60 yards from the creek and on top of that we sit down between a mountain and a ridge, so even when the rain quits, the creek keeps rising until all that rain water runs off the mountain and ridge. Or one neighbor said when they looked out the window it looked like a big wave coming down the creek and it took out there pool. Lucky for us our pool surivied the flood, but.... about two month after the flood we were working on the house and as we were coming down the road we seen all these garbage bags laying in the yard and down by the ditch by the road. My first thought when seeing them was did an animal drag them doen there? The bags were full of aluminum cans.
When we pulled in our lane I then seen why the cans were down in the yard, our swimming pool collapsed and the water that came rusing out of the pool washed the bags down into the yard. So even though the pool surivied the flood, it didn't survive after it. The flood washed out a lot of sand on the one side of the pool which caused the pool to burst open on that side. It littery ripped the pool in half on that side.
So we lost the pool but it's no shame for the pool being it was 25 years old. When we removed the pool, the bottom that hold the sides in place were pretty rusted away, just on the side that burst, the reat was in pretty good shape yet. I'm pretty sure where it rusted out was because it was rightr under the skimmer and any water splashed out of the skimmer would run down the outside of the pool causing that area to rust more then the rest.
Anyways the pool has seen it's day's at 25 years old and it was still the origional liner in the pool! What I thought was pretty strange was when we removed the pool. The pool is a 27 foot round above ground pool. When we were taking out the liner, the part of the linewr that covered the sides were still soft and flexable like a liner should be, but the bottom was hard and brittle. If someone would have jumped in the pool and the heel of there foot his the bottom hard, there is no doubt it would have cracked or broken the liner being it was that brittle.
Below is a picture of the pool where it split and some pictures of the mud throughout the house.
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