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I’m sorry you are flooding, hope it clears out soon. I don’t know about Tennessee real estate law, but in Texas the seller does not have to say the property floods unless the buyer directly asks if it has ever flooded. That sucks for the buyer. And I bet yall did not ask if the barn ever flooded. No matter, it will be someone else’s problem.
 

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Seems the whole country is getting flooded, don't worry we are still in a drought everyone. Still need to push an agenda and keep those emergency funds flowing.
Last two years WE droughted and caught fire. Hopefully this means there will be more funds for your area as most of the rest of us are in a wet year. Up until this year were were in a cycle with only a few bad storms and the rest dry as a bone with wildfires until winter. I guess we could still drought, but I'm not sure it's going to anymore.
I’m sorry you are flooding, hope it clears out soon. I don’t know about Tennessee real estate law, but in Texas the seller does not have to say the property floods unless the buyer directly asks if it has ever flooded. That sucks for the buyer. And I bet yall did not ask if the barn ever flooded. No matter, it will be someone else’s problem.
Relative to the area our property does not flood. The dirt here does not absorb water quickly so it all runs and we will get 3 or 4 fast hard storms a year. We're on the edge of a hill on the way to a creek so we get the water. The barn gets a little soggy where the manure hasn't built a new floor level. It was intended for beef cattle and the attitude here is that they tend to be able to take a little wet. The far back of the pasture is probably a temporary roaring river (that's why the soil is so poor back there that I can't get much to grow in it as far as forage). The shop's raised garage door is not water tight so when the flowing sheet of water rises the few times a year it does the building catches a little of it. Because of the clay and how our weather works everything that is built must be subject to flowing sheets of water. The people who will really be suffering will be the folks in the "hollars" in the bottoms near the edges of rivers or creeks. Traditionally it's trailer homes or shacks. Lately they've been selling out to dumb rich people and developers who sell to rich people and there are now houses big houses in "disposable" areas, traditionally lived in, but because of it's location beside a flowing water body every knows (except for the dumb people) that occasionally the water will rise and they will be flooded out, destroying their homes again and again. Often these homes couldn't even have septic systems. IDK if that's allowed now. When I was a kid here people really were dirt poor (including us!). Our septic used to work until it didn't.

We're under an order to stay home unless fleeing a flooded area or under and evacuation order. Now I get to watch the county clean up via SmokeyBarn.com's fb page (because they only so-so maintain their website anymore). Lots of water rescues as people tried to leave their homes in the evenings or go home after work. I got to sleep in. I hear something out there yelling, but I think it's probably because they ran out of dry grain. I'll be going out in a few minutes to make sure everyone is fine. I am VERY blessed to be warm and safe in my bedroom. In town in some of the neighboring cities the neighborhoods look BAD.
 

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Most places will allow septic within 100' of waterways, and for the poor percolating conditions for septic the rich will just put in mound systems. A mound system can go for about $30k versus traditional system is around $5k. This area doesn't get funds, drought or not we get wildfires due to two reasons, lightening or coal seam fires. The ground will literally self combust if the coal seams get dry enough and warm enough.
 

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The ground will literally self combust if the coal seams get dry enough and warm enough.
That's a little scary. Then you can be like Centralia, PA. Permanently burning.

I don't know how many requirements there were for septic here 25-30 years ago for "backwoods" houses. Our septic didn't work great when everything flooded and was under water (apart from the house itself). I remember getting sick a lot when it was like that, but such was life here. We eventually got moved to follow the work so it wasn't a problem anymore and kid me doesn't remember much more about that.
 

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6.57" of rain yesterday.
Animals are fine, fences are fine, shop very flooded (cleaned that and milked). Displaced turtles of various species everywhere. Did not check the far side of the fence in case there were more than turtles everywhere in the hip high clover I planted. We're going to be a little soggy for a while.
 

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Dan has already been told by a teacher that he will never amount to anything in life (he's 9) and Aiden has been saying his teacher has been being "mean and nasty" and he's terrified of drawing attention to himself right now (and in the brief conversation I've had with her I agree, she is taking stuff out on everyone and is even being unpleasant to us adults).
That comment to a child would be construed as "abuse", and the teacher shiuld be reprimanded. Sounds like the teachers in your school district are not what you would want for your kids' education so just as well you are moving.
Just 16 more days and I get to figure out how to transition my kids from a failing school to a new one.
Transferring from the school that belittles your children to a new one can only be a jump to better treatment or them. Final option would be homeschooling. I am glad that I don't have children in school anymore but if I did, I would probably take a good look at homeschooling today.
(No really, Dear, you have to WATCH him).
It is amazing how men think being in the same room with a toddler while they watch TV equates to "watching" the child. And how surprised they are that the child can get into stuff so quickly and cause a big mess to be cleaned up. LOL

Most men still think that stay-at-home moms have it easy and don't really do anything all day. When we first got life insurance and I insisted that DH get insurance on me, I was prepared with a list of things I did and what it would cost for him to pay someone to do if I was gone. He was shocked at the number of people it would take to fill my place and the minimum cost to pay them to do what I did. He was even more horrified when I pointed out that he would have to give up any overtime since there would be no daycare to take the children all night. I'm not sure that he really believed it until a co-worker with small children lost his wife and he saw what the guy had to do to keep the family together.
 

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Wow, DH told me today that the 48 hour total for that storm system was over 12" of rain.
We did pretty good considering.
Looks like it's time for some more.
Kid tattooing, trailer practice, meeting our realtor, and more talking with moving people on the docket for this week.

*edited from 10" to 12" because I remembered or heard wrong.
 
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