Welcome to Washington state...mud junction
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Daren Todd
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That's the fifth season up there ain't it?
Spent many years dealing with that. Back yards like that from late fall thru late spring Hopefully it will dry out for you sometime soon. Mainly wanted to comment on your photo. Several years ago, a tornado passed within 2/10 of a mile from the house. Wipe out the utilities and we were without power for a week. Had thunderstorms coming thru every night. After the second night of me getting drenched cooking dinner my wife came up and asked a question. "Why don't you drag the grill around front and put it in the garage??"
That's the fifth season up there ain't it? Spent many years dealing with that. Back yards like that from late fall thru late spring Hopefully it will dry out for you sometime soon.
Daren, we actually have two seasons here. Winter and the 4th of July.
Spent many years dealing with that. Back yards like that from late fall thru late spring Hopefully it will dry out for you sometime soon. Daren, we actually have two seasons here. Winter and the 4th of July.
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This was my driveway 3 weeks ago after a neighbor HAD to drive into my place and then I had to tow him in the rest of the way and then back out with the Bobcat!
This is my attempt at neighbor proofing my driveway!
This is my attempt at neighbor proofing my driveway!
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My wet season is done here i hope. Wish i had a do not park on the grass/mud sign. Oeople coming to shop would park anywhere,leaving muddy ruts when they turn around.first spring i can remember in a long time that it hasnt rained every third day. One whole summer was never more than 3 days without. Its been a long time since we had a hot dry summer. Maybe this year? I doubt it.
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I was able to get the land plane out and grade out the potholes a couple weeks ago, and it's been raining (or snowing ever since) but at least we're going to get another 1 1/2" today!
There's flooding and mudslide warnings out everywhere
There's flooding and mudslide warnings out everywhere
Funny....but not funny! I can relate but yours is bigger than mine, story of my life. and still rainingThis was my driveway 3 weeks ago after a neighbor HAD to drive into my place and then I had to tow him in the rest of the way and then back out with the Bobcat!
This is my attempt at neighbor proofing my driveway!
This video is not very far from North Idaho Wolfman.
http://komonews.com/news/offbeat/landslide-overcomes-highway-95-in-northern-idaho-that-was-insane
http://komonews.com/news/offbeat/landslide-overcomes-highway-95-in-northern-idaho-that-was-insane
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Yep that's about 5 miles up the road from me.
It's the main Hwy that runs up into Canada, a ton of truck traffic runs up and down it, and the detour road is a narrow old road that is not in much better shape.
What you don't see is just to the right of it is train tracks, and every time the train goes through there it shakes the mountain and it moves.
They've had to close the road and dig it out a dozen times, this is one of several slides.
Another slide farther north uncovered old buried cases of dynamite, and old buried dynamite is very unstable.
"Angle of Repose" good book
Skeets, what is the angle? 30 degs or there about? Is it a variable number?
Interesting observation.
That is dependent upon the material, as a rule of thumb it ranges from 15 to about 50 degrees. Like dry round sand would be close to 15 degrees wet clay more toward 50 degrees,, coal piles about 30. The more course the material the steeper the angle, but that does not mean it is stable.
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The ground around here and the area of the slide is glacial till which is very very fine sand, does fine and dandy as long as there is some ground cover on it.
This location and others in that county have no ground cover they just dug out of the side of the mountain and did nothing to stabilize the ground, no grass no trees, no rock, nothing.
It's a county issue not a state issue, That county has zero extra money and every little event they have to declare a state of emergency so they can get state and federal assistance to help them out.
I have zero sympathy for them because they have some backwards thinking people living up there, that think keeping any industry out will be better, there is just about no work and no real stable money coming into the county so they rely on other counties to fund them.
This location and others in that county have no ground cover they just dug out of the side of the mountain and did nothing to stabilize the ground, no grass no trees, no rock, nothing.
It's a county issue not a state issue, That county has zero extra money and every little event they have to declare a state of emergency so they can get state and federal assistance to help them out.
I have zero sympathy for them because they have some backwards thinking people living up there, that think keeping any industry out will be better, there is just about no work and no real stable money coming into the county so they rely on other counties to fund them.