Oh wow... I know you'd written a little bit about what had happened, but the pictures really bring it home! What a mess... Is everything starting to get back to normal?
That depends on your definition of "normal". The water feature is gone, but it's still too wet to start putting the gardens on the hill back together. The big garden I have up in Plainfield is still a mess, though I've started to try putting it back together a little. Many roads and basements are still being put back together...a lot of downtown Montpelier's basements flooded, and the city next door, Barre, got it even worse than we did. In the grand scheme of things, damage to our property was minimal.
HOLY MOLY. That just sucks. I wish the rain would chill out, so things can settle. Was it only outside water? Please tell me it was only outside water and that the house is fine.
Yes, the house is fine. Our basement is wet, but not any more than it usually is when we get rain. (When the deluge started, we did have rather too much water pouring into the basement, but Tom went out and trenched next to the house and that problem went away pretty fast.)
On one hand, what a mess. On the other based on the initial descriptions, I'd imagined something worse. Really glad that the hillside stood up to all that water.
Yep. The landscaper who put in our retaining walls gets a Gold Freaking Star. They held up perfectly. The parts that the City's construction contractor completed--catch basin, driveway repair--not so much with the proper operation or erosion resistance. As will be no surprise, said contractor is now out of business, while the landscaper's business is still strong.
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That just sucks. I wish the rain would chill out, so things can settle. Was it only outside water? Please tell me it was only outside water and that the house is fine.
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On one hand, what a mess. On the other based on the initial descriptions, I'd imagined something worse. Really glad that the hillside stood up to all that water.
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