Flooded Barn damned weather..

['S'teamed]

The bottom barn has taken a pounding over the last 36 hours..

It was under 4 inches of water at 1.30pm this afternoon...
The drain outside was blocked, so all of last nights rain/hail/sleet just poured into the Young Guns bedroom

I managed to unblock the drainage area..general crud/haylege/mud and a dead rat..so hopefully things will begin to dry up..

I used 1 1/2 round bale of straw to make it habitable this evening...can do without anymore rain for at least a week to help things dry out TBH

In the 6 years we've had the yard, this is the first time that the barn has flooded..

And TBH, we've only had a 1/5th of what you guys up north have had.....i hope the worst is over or it will be an expensive winter

 

[miss_c]

Oh goodness, that's not good!

 

[LauraWheeler]

Oh dear, Poor you. I to hope it drys up soon. My fields are mud baths

 

[Tangled]

Oh no that's awful! Hope the weather lays off for you.

Failing that you could kit them out in goggles and flippers, have a barn full of sea horses then ... apologise for the crap joke...best I could do after a long day!

 

[Cuffey]

No joy!
I am watching the local loch which is sitting very high, beginning to think the outlet is partially blocked--planning permission was given for a few houses rather closer than I would like to live!! One older cottage has been flooded so many times recently it is now unoccupied

The river has been like a yo-yo and my grazing soured--horses keen to go out but keener still to come in again!

Is this climate change!!

 

['S'teamed]

Tangled, the mental vision i have is VERY funny...Thanks

 

[rockysmum]

Poor you, cleaning out flooded stables is a nightmare.

I had to do it last week when one of the automatic waterers leaked. It was only one stable but I got 10 of the really big yard barrows out of it, a they all weighed a tonne. Cant imaging having to do a whole barn with that much water.

 

[martlin]

Oh, 'S'teamed, that doesn't sound too good at all... and there was me feeling aggrieved that half of my arena turned into a pond Hope it all dries out for you very soon.

 

[Mince Pie]

Yiked 'S'teamed! Hopefully things will calm down soon

 

[Luci07]

Ok I will stop moaning about how much mud my three dogs bring into the house - its virtually impossible to hold back three staffords to dry off filthy paws and my poor garden is getting wrecked. Honestly the dogs dont get so dirty up at the yard!

 

[TicTac]

Wow rockysmum I love your flashing reindeer!

Sorry about your barn s'teamed. Not good. I've had the bl@@dy rain pouring straight into my stables for the last few days as they face south! Lovely and sunny in the summer but not when we get southerly winds with weather like this! fed up now and just want it to be summer again :-(

 

[Tangled]

Tangled, the mental vision i have is VERY funny...Thanks

No problem...

 

[Tangled]

Found a better one:

 

[Fii]

What a nightmare!!
Our yard has awfull drainage, just a soakaway type drain at one end, and one of the "stables" floods every time we have a lot of rain. Oh has suposed to have been sorting it for years now, trouble is the yard is lower than the ground by the side of it, god knows how they managed to cope when it was used for diary cows!! We dont use it in winter to stable though.

 

[Marydoll]

Aw thats crap, hope it lets up and you dry out a bit.
My field is pretty wet now and my garden is just sludge, im so sick of bloomin rain, ive forgotten what blue sky looks like

 

[millimoo]

You have my sympathies... Happened to us a fee years ago.
48hiurs of freak rain flooded our lane so badly, that the water found news ways to run off - plus a few extra layers of Tarmac had changed the camber of the road.
Needless to say, it found away across our parking area above the arena, and next to the stables. Our 5th retaining wall collapsed without warning onto the gable end of the stables sending a tidal wave into the stables.
all horses were standing fetlock deep in water - and that was on top of very thick shavings beds.
Took us a whole solid day with help to remove all the beds.
However we were very fortunate that a neighbour with a livery yard let us stay for a few days free of charge whilst we tidied up - refused to take any money from us, and cleared out 2 loose boxes of building equipment to house the big boys... My little shettie went in the main barn.
We also lost half the Arena top that day too, ended up deposited at the bottom of the field. Thankfully the house insurance covered the 7k repair

 

[Zimzim]

Hope things get better for you!

Our barn tends to flood every time we have really bad weather, but luckily this year it hasnt and the drains are holding up, however our fields are taking a hammering from all this rain!

 

[joeanne]

Sucks doesn't it!
The only field NOT to be flooded right now is the colts, and there is no natural shelter in there so they have to come in.
Hope your barn dries out sharpish!