January 2, 2004

the spring was sprung

Last week it rained pretty hard. We got around six inches. Back in 1998 their was an El Nino storm and they got 13 inches in 24 hours. It blocked up culverts thereby causing bits of road to fall into the creek, huge boulders to wind up on the road and mud pretty much everywhere. Yesterday it rained another five or six inches, but we didn’t have any major problems except for the water line breaking. This happens every couple of weeks though, so it wasn’t too shocking. It was determined, however, that the problem was probably not a break but rather that the pipe coming from the spring was blocked with silt.

To get to the spring you have to climb pretty much straight up a hill for about two hours. I know this because I volunteered to hike there yesterday. It was great. I had a blast. Got completely drenched, totally muddy but it was a fun hike. I’m thinking of changing career fields based on it.

posted @ 10:12 AM

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