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jfgrant jfgrant at triton.net
Fri Jan 14 20:02:04 PST 2005


Farmer. Is Friendship in Ripley Co. under water? JG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at loganrec.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Glub glub


>    The tile ditches are indeed running full. Seem to be doing
> their job. My road to the east of me is closed due to high
> water.
> Have to make a 4 mile detour to get to my neighbor 2 miles
> down the road. Lots of low laying ground here as I am only 1
> mile from the little Miami River, so the runoff has to come past
> here and the county ditches are well beyond capacity.
>    George is right about Larry being closest to the high
> point at Campbell Hill. I am probably the lowest elevation
> of the three of us. Fortunately for me, my farm is located
> on a bit of a plateau so the water runs off of me on all
> sides.
>    My area here was at one time known as the Lewistown
> Swamp. There are many low lying potholes that collect water
> and are so low that they have no real drain outlet. Mainly the
> water either perks into the ground or lays there till it
> evaporates.
>    The county road west of Bellefontaine where the Sheriff's
> office is located is closed by a quarter mile standing water.
> The drive is open but they can only go out one way on the road.
>    I used to live close to I-70 in Buckeye Lake and know very
> well the flooding tendency of this stretch of highway. It was
> closed between Routes 13 and Route 37 yesterday and I
> suppose it is still closed tonight.
>    I believe Ohio will have adequate subsoil moisture for
> the planting season.
> 
>                    Gene
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <robinson at svs.net>
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> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:18 PM
> Subject: [AT] Glub glub
> 
> 
> : On 14 Jan 2005 at 9:10, Larry D. Goss wrote:
> :
> : > Just think, Gene, you're near the high spot of the whole
> state!  They
> : > were closing I-70 behind us as we came through east of
> Columbus a couple
> : > of days ago, and the flatlands in the Scioto basin are like
> one big long
> : > swampy lake.
> : >
> : > Larry
> :
> :
> :
> :
> :
> : Yesterday I was out on the hill where we were pulling the #$%&
> CUBs at Cubfest
> : walking in about 1 inch of water when I ran across several
> crawdad holes with
> : water coming up out of them. I hope our crawdads don't
> drown...   :-)
> : Today it is fairly dry and frozen. I'll bet that Gene's new
> tile ditches are
> : running full.
> :
> :
> : --
> : farmer, Esq.
> :       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
> :
> :
> : Francis Robinson
> : Central Indiana USA
> : robinson at svs.net
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