This February after a pretty good rain Marc found this "HOLE" in our back yard! This first picture is not what it looked like when we first found it (The boards in the picture actually covered it at first). When we first looked down the hole we could see our culverts that were extended the whole length of your back yard that were "suppose to be" draining the water from our back yard (and neighbors yards).
As days and weeks and more rain went on the hole gradually got bigger...and bigger!
To make a really LONG story short the city, insurance, previous owners, and everyone else we asked would not cover any of it, but we were told it had to be taken care of or more holes would develop and work it's way to our house. The easy way out was to fill the hole and sell, but the easiest way was how we ended up with the house. We did NOT have peace about selling without being totally honest with buyers and that would probably lead to a loss in the sell of the house. The other option was to replace the old, bad, and useless culverts with new ones. Do it right and have peace weather we stayed in the house the rest of our lives or sold it the next day.
Well....with the Lords blessing and guidance we broke ground March 14th. Krimson is on the digger with a good friend from church as he started digging.
The morning started with lots of rain so once the culverts were revealed the workers left for the day letting it dry out. Here is Roscoe checking it out!!
One of the big CRACKS that was NOT helping...
Here you can see the water flowing UNDER the culvert. This was near where the hole was in the yard. Now you can see why...
A couple of tree's had to be dug up and removed so we could get to the culvert.
The next step is to remove the culverts....Many more pictures to come!
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