Posted: 6/18/2017 6:18:43 PM EDT
| I saw KCP&L say that about 90,000 customers lost power last night. I would be one of them. Trees down all over the neighborhood. Looks like a house down the street got taken out by a tree. |
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Is it still out? That sucks either way.
The water rushing down our driveway always makes a little gully, but last night it washed the gravel out enough that I can see the PVC that runs underneath (from septic tank to lagoon). I'll probably need a little Bobcat work, and then a load of rock. |
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I wonder how expensive that would be. I'd have to run it up the hill a ways, or it would wash out a ditch at the beginning of it. Our driveway is pretty steep.
Attached File Attached File I hope you get power back soon. |
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I wonder how expensive that would be. I'd have to run it up the hill a ways, or it would wash out a ditch at the beginning of it. Our driveway is pretty steep. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2016-10-13-Roof--234175.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2015-3-25-Chickens-234176.JPG I hope you get power back soon. |
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I wonder how expensive that would be. I'd have to run it up the hill a ways, or it would wash out a ditch at the beginning of it. Our driveway is pretty steep. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2016-10-13-Roof--234175.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2015-3-25-Chickens-234176.JPG I hope you get power back soon. 
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I wonder how expensive that would be. I'd have to run it up the hill a ways, or it would wash out a ditch at the beginning of it. Our driveway is pretty steep. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2016-10-13-Roof--234175.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2015-3-25-Chickens-234176.JPG I hope you get power back soon. My parents used to have a similar problem. Then they put down some inch & a half sized gravel (I think) and they haven't had any wash out problems since. |
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I wonder how expensive that would be. I'd have to run it up the hill a ways, or it would wash out a ditch at the beginning of it. Our driveway is pretty steep. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2016-10-13-Roof--234175.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/2015-3-25-Chickens-234176.JPG I hope you get power back soon. |
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I talked with a friend of mine (who has a Bobcat), and he said trying to lower the right side (facing downhill) would solve a lot of the problem. Since it's higher on that side, it forces the water to the left, then at the bottom it comes back to the right where the drainage goes along the road.
This whole place has rock ledges just under the surface, so he's not sure that can be done, but he said that he'd try. We discussed a culvert, but that would require a Backhoe with a chipper. We're going to try changing the angle, then dropping 2" rock down there. |