Here is what it looked like after Day One of the clean up...we used a couple squeeges to push the mud outside. The deck, of course, was also covered in mud so we used shovels to work on that, as we had no water at that time.
And again....
The girls came and helped on the second day...we brought the atv, as there was no way we could drive down in there due to all that mud...Richard was going to haul water from the top of the hill, but our neighbor had gotten the pump going, so only had to haul it from there...We all worked hard that afternoon and made some progress. As we were leaving, Richard spotted this box turtle. He had seen it the first day he climbed over the bluff...guess it had been awakened by the flood water and was up by the old cabin where it was still dry....anyway, the poor thing was now mired in the mud and could hardly move. We picked it up and carried it to where the truck was, where we took this picture. It was going to get so cold that night that I brought it home and after warming in the sun for a bit it burrowed under leaves that had collected under our bay window.....it stayed there for half the next day where it was sunny..Hope it does ok..it was so muddy that it couldn't close it's shell all the way at first. We named it Westy for our neighbor hahaha
Took these pics yesterday....I bought a grout brush and that helped a lot! Lots of work, but at least you can tell where you have worked!
Porch area is probably 2/3 done. Takes it a long time to dry since it's so cold.
the mud flats.....We are having to use the atv to go in and out..no telling when we'll be able to bring our truck down....In 2013 it wasn't near this bad and we almost ended up over the river bank a couple times....sooo scary. and one of the guys that did the ceramic tile did slide off and had to get a tractor to pull him out...These are the tracks from the atv
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