At 2:30am, he went down to the barn to have a look. At 8:30 am he came back up to the house for breakfast. (I had fallen back to sleep.) Apparently everything was flooded...including the indoor arena. The INDOOR ARENA, I asked? So...back down to the arena we went after breakfast and what a mess. We went to town and bought a sump pump....starting pumping at about noon. At about 5pm, Shelley and Todd showed up and gave us a hand. We gave up around 9pm that night. Exhausted. We had managed to regain the parameter of the indoor so people could ride a bit if they wanted to, but everything else was still a mess.
The next day, I went to a fundraiser and Gary stayed home. He hopped on his tractor and for another 5 or 6 hours solid, he played with the flow of the mud and graded the arena. I still cannot believe this, but when I got back from the fundraiser, the arena was fit to use again!! All of it!! Nothing is as sweet as a good man with a good tractor. I put together a video of the flood and it is attached at the bottom.
We also found out that our "drainage system" was clogged so what water might have sunk through the snow, had nowhere to go. So the next weekend, Troy worked away at it for hours, draining, digging and fixing. It is all fixed up now. We honestly don't know if the drainage system alone will be enough and we've taken other precautions as well, (re-routed some ditches at the top of the hill and bought 2 sump pumps) so hopefully, this never happens to us again.
Troy cleaning out our big drain
Pam helping Troy dump the "silt" that has accummulated in the drain over the years.
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