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Initial Damage Assessment on Driveway

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Farm almost lost in the blink of an eye....days of hard work..just lost..

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What happens here

The video starts with the narrator, Josh from Stoney Ridge Farmer, explaining a '99-year flood' event. He mentions receiving approximately 7 inches of rain in just 25 minutes. He then points to a section of his gravel driveway next to his shop, built on a hill, where water flowing over a concrete edge and from a gutter pipe caused a significant washout. He drives his utility vehicle (UTV) to further illustrate the extent of the damage along the driveway, where gravel has been displaced into the yard.

Goal: The narrator introduces the severe flood event, stating that 7 inches of rain fell in 25 minutes, causing significant damage. He shows how water overflowed from his shop area, washing out a section of his gravel driveway near a gutter pipe. This highlights the immediate impact of the heavy rainfall.

Tools and materials

  • Gutter pipe
  • UTV (Utility Task Vehicle)

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hey folks this is Josh tawny Ridge farmer welcome to the farm blog today we had the 99 year flood yesterday so I'm gonna take you around the farm and show you a little bit our road washed out down here there's a motor grader working on our road and I'll show you a few things that are going on insane amount of rain we got somewhere in the neighborhood of seven inches of rain thought the Gator was rolling off we got somewhere in the neighborhood of seven inches of rain in 25 minutes right here is what happened just to our driveway and the way our shop is built it's built on a hill I'll show you real quick so basically we're dug in back here water was flowing over this so fast that it washed out our driveway right here and this is the pipe where the gutter comes out and it just washed everything and just washed really really bad also over here on the other side it washed out really bad as much as I hate to say it this storm is gonna cost us some money big-time our driveway washed out washed our gravel right down into the yard Gardens looking good though so we're gonna ride on down the driveway here to where the motor grader is working and our road is absolutely destroyed they're gonna have to probably put 10 or 12 dump truck loads of gravel on the road it just washed out it washed out horribly bad they're down here working it's a day after that is super duper awesome kudos to North Carolina NC dot or Department of Transportation kudos to those guys alright let me let me just ride up here and show you so here's where the road washed completely over and our house is right up the hill here there we go so the road just washed over into the creek and the creek got out of its banks somewhere in the neighborhood of four feet deep out of its banks and right

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