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Post by theevan on Sept 5, 2022 5:04:52 GMT -5
It's like the end of the world.
Who knew living on a pond could be such an adventure?
Friday we had the most intense rain I have ever experienced. Around 9" fell in less than 90 minutes. The pond (2 to 3 acres, it is) rose a foot-and-a-half and the streets flooded. The water was over my knees in front of the house. The rain eased and eventually the streets drained. Later in the day the pond drained to a somewhat normal level.
So yesterday a go out on the back back deck in dawn's early light and it looks like the whole dang lake is covered in white feathers. I figured the white geese must have had a celebrity death match or something. But after we came home from church I realized those weren't feathers, but tens-of-thousands little fish. Mixed in among them were many larger fish. Great white herons are having a field day gorging themselves. The nutria, normally never seen, are swimming about in a confused state. A possum was wandering around the back yard in broad daylight.
We are bracing ourselves for an epic stink.
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Post by millring on Sept 5, 2022 6:17:26 GMT -5
yuck.
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Post by Marty on Sept 5, 2022 9:02:46 GMT -5
Call the City.
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Post by david on Sept 5, 2022 12:02:40 GMT -5
Sounds like a perfect time for a fish fry.
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Post by Dub on Sept 5, 2022 12:36:04 GMT -5
I’m reminded of Chicago in June of 1967. Literally billions upon billions of alewives (alewifes?) died and washed up on Chicago’s shoreline. The weather stayed warm and foggy which caused the horrible stink of rotting fish to permeate the air for twenty blocks in or so all along the lake. They had to bring in huge earth-moving shovels and dump trucks to scoop up the dead fish and cart them off. Removal efforts went on for weeks.
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Sept 5, 2022 17:46:23 GMT -5
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Post by dradtke on Sept 5, 2022 17:46:23 GMT -5
Who knew? Pretty much anybody who ever lived near a pond. It never matches the realtors photo.
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Sept 5, 2022 17:50:53 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Sept 5, 2022 17:50:53 GMT -5
We had a mess of cormorants feeding but the just left. Time for the vultures. The dead koi are yuuuuge. Flies by the gazillion. A big gators would help.
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Post by gbacklin on Sept 5, 2022 18:45:30 GMT -5
At the end of July, I was mowing my lawn. Im on an acre and a half so use a rider mower. As I would approach the north east corner furthest away from the house, there was this awful smell. I didnt see anything after the first 5 rounds, but the smell was terrible. I was trying to associate it with something I have smelled before, but just couldn't place it. Finally after the 7th trip to that corner, I finally saw what the cause of the smell was.
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 5, 2022 19:55:18 GMT -5
Was that a deer, Gene?
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 5, 2022 19:58:49 GMT -5
We had a mess of cormorants feeding but the just left. Time for the vultures. The dead koi are yuuuuge. Flies by the gazillion. A big gators would help. What would really help are nature's best housekeepers. Insects. Ants, especially. And flies. Fly larvae, specifically. And if they're in grass, worms wouldn't hurt at all. It's those tiny creatures that dispatch of things quickly. Not things like gators.
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Sept 5, 2022 20:31:00 GMT -5
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Post by gbacklin on Sept 5, 2022 20:31:00 GMT -5
I believe it was a raccoon.
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 5, 2022 20:31:42 GMT -5
Either way, past tense is correct.
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Post by John B on Sept 5, 2022 21:57:49 GMT -5
Reminds me of the Sunday I showed up to work at the shop at guitar school. There was an absolutely rank smell we traced to somewhere outside of one of the building corners. It turns out someone had dumped a full goat carcass in the irrigation ditch next to the building. We took the parts we found and took it to a dumpster. Or something like that. I'm thinking it was between April and July of 2011, and apparently I didn't mention "goat" in a thread during that time.
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