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Jun 25, 2012 1:30 PM CST
Name: Jonna
Mérida, Yucatán, México (Zone 13a)
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We got the back side of Debbie yesterday and the rain was bucketing down for hours. I had to put our door shield up and then some sandbags behind it as the street flooded. I still got a little water in the hall but not as bad as in past years. During all this, I had the pumps on trying to keep the outside pond from overflowing - those Mollies love to go on a swim about in the neighboring flower beds but some of them are too dumb to go back to the pond when the water goes down. I forgot the pumps at one point and when I ran out to turn them off there was only about a foot and half of water in the pond and the pool was really low. So, today, I got to refill them both. Very strange as we may get another dump of rain this afternoon but I'm out there pumping water IN. I have a new lotus plant at one end of the pond and I'm hoping that the low water didn't derail its growth.

The pond in the hall was touch and go for a bit, I need to get a longer hose for the pump. I could only pump it to the nearest drain and that was already full from the roof drains. It got within an inch of overflowing into the hall and the house... I was a bit nervous about that. The pond on the roof I had pumped down before all of this started but when I went up there later it was right at the lip. That means we got around 5 - 6 inches of rain in about 3 hours!

All's well though and the fish are happy. I hope those of you in Florida don't have many problems.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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