Flooding and Foaming

This has been an interesting week...
We had a major storm system come through, and though it wasn't dangerous from a tornado standpoint, it was a real flood-bringer. Our area got more than 5 inches of rain in one day! A lot of roads in the area had to be closed.
Obviously this hampers the geothermal drilling a bit. Fortunately it did not stop the insulation crew from coming in and finishing insulating the exterior walls of the house. :-)

First things first - a flooding before/after montage:

On the trail leading between houses out here we built a footbridge over the creek. This creek is fed with runoff from the property as well as some on the other side of the road, and most of it flows into the man-made pond out here. If the pond gets full, three things happen: 1) water flows out of an overflow pipe until the pond water level gets back down to the planned max level 2) water flows over a low spot in the retaining wall and floods into the neighboring pasture and 3) the creek backs up and rises until water can drain out of the pond.

Here are some pics of the footbridge the day before the storm (we knew storms were a-comin' because my trick knee started acting up; and, uh...the weatherman said so too I guess).


The gravel path is for a 4-wheeler to cross, and has an iron pipe in it to flow water when the creek is at normal levels.


After the creek backed up (the next day)!



Then the day after:


Unfortunately the gravel 4-wheeler path partially washed away!


On the plus side the rain brings grass and flowers


The pond in its fullness (those trees are normally not underwater):


The overflow pipe trying to rebalance the water level:

Somehow nothing much was damaged out here.

Back to the house! The foaming is all done and we're ready for drywall.
Laundry room:



The office is foamed:



This is the wall where the wires and gas line go to the outside, you can't see any of them now


This is the wall where all of the plumbing and geothermal pipes were visible before:


Random pic of the day:
We use only the finest Halliburton Hole Plug for our geothermal wells...


Since the drywall is already at the house, I expect that will progress quite quickly next week. More pics of that as it happens!