A Goat's Trip Down Mehmory Lane: Rain, Rain Go Away
5My in-laws, mom, dad, and brother moved back home this weekend. They have been staying in our house for about 6 months. It was supposed to be one month. We live on the Southeast coast of Florida and our particular area has had more rain in the last year than I can remember. Their house is a modular that was placed back in the '70s. With the development over the years around the property, more and more water drains towards their house than away. Last December we noticed that their floors were starting to get soft so we made plans to rip up the flooring and replace the subfloor figuring that’s all it would take. When the first pieces were ripped up and cut through, we found about 2 ft of standing water under the house.
The job immediately became a lot more than we anticipated. In order to get the water out we had to fill it, one wheelbarrow at a time. It has been raining more days than not and pushing a wheelbarrow up the steps filled with wet sand is not an easy task. We had to do this one room at a time and then laid plastic on top of the sand and another layer under the floor to help prevent future moisture intrusion. We had plenty of help but it still took a very long time. Also the house needed some updating, so with this big of a task already at hand we moved some walls and did some other things to make it a bit nicer.
With the unending amount of rain these last months, the property around and behind their house has basically stayed underwater also. As soon as it would start to dry out more rain would come and there’s another foot of water in their backyard. The rain created many delays throughout the process.
My brother-in-law has special needs and it was a blessing to be able to help them by letting them stay with us, however as you can imagine more people in the house created its own stresses. They were finally able to get moved back in on Saturday just as tropical storm ETA began dumping much more rain on us. All we want is to dry out. Hopefully the amount of sand put under the house will prevent other water from intruding, but as I said above, the additional development on surrounding properties has caused more of the water to flow toward us than away from us and I don’t know what the long-term prospects of their house is. For now they are home and our house is a little emptier.
Rain, rain go away, don’t come again another day.
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Below are a few more early meh purchases to stimulate. Enjoy!
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I forgot that I ordered these. Great idea that I never used. That seems to be a trend as I go through all of these old purchases. Items that were great in concept yet found their ways into storage somewhere. I must have been the best type of customer, buy crap that I really don’t need only to misplace it and buy something else shortly after. Thinking I need to get a handle on things.
Hello from the Treasure Coast. Yeah. Super rainy this year. My fence line is underwater right now and I’m going to eventually have to replace all the posts from being underwater and rotting.
@RiotDemon are you really in the treasure coast also? I guess we are in good company. For some reason I thought you were more North Florida. Our fence came down about 4 years ago. With really heavy rain and poor drainage from fort Pierce farms and South Florida water Management our streets flood. That coupled with a hurricane that year blew over most of our fence and we did not have the money at the time to rebuild it so we had to take it out.
@jaybird yeah, been here since around 2007, I think.
I actually found this site from a post on Facebook from someone I used to work with… Someone I didn’t know posted to their page talking about the floating banana boat speaker. I’ve always wondered who it was since I would see sales from the Treasure Coast looking at the map.
Don’t use Facebook anymore and never figured out who the user was. Maybe it was you?
@RiotDemon I didn’t post a banana boat, but I may be the guilty purchaser. Glad to find a neighbor.
@jaybird well, in that case…
Remehmber when meh sold t-shirts for a dollar? It seemed like a great way to spend their marketing budget dollars, and great for us to advertise for them. Sure would like for that to happen again soon.
I’ll take some of that rain. I’m in central Florida, and we only got about 3 big rainstorms this rainy season, and about two weeks of light showers. No rain besides that. Our soil here is basically sand, so it can’t retain water, either. My plants are not happy.
So is their house staying dry?
@Kidsandliz the inside is dry, I’m assuming under is as well. I’m more concerned about longevity at this point. Praying for your mom. Hope she recovers quickly.
These gems were a wonderful idea. I used one for a little while and then it got misplaced along with the others. I’m sure they are in a box around here somewhere.