Re: Donna and tornadoes

Oh man.  Just goes to show how little I know about ponds.
Glad your power is back on lady!


On 6/9/08, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I now have power and finally connected to the internet at home as well....
>
> Mothers pond was overpopulated. I have been telling her for years we
> have to give some away. Unfortunately, I could never catch them, other
> than one or two every now and again.
>
>
> Well the tornado killed off the ecosystem of the pond. It turned the
> water rapidly both with overflowing and bringing the bottom
> water/muck/whatever up. It also dumped a lot of dirt and what have you
> in it. It was in the 90's and after the storm, even I couldn't breathe
> out there as they air was so thick. With no power, I couldn't airate nor
> filter the water. So by morning on Sunday most were dead and others
> where gasping for breathe. Of course the dead fish were expelling amonia
> and making it worse.
>
>
> Now that the pumps are back on, I can see in my pond and they even came
> up to eat, but by count, 2 are missing! After taking 4 huge garbage bags
> of dead fish out of mothers pond, it is still too merky to tell if
> anyone survived or not. Maybe in the morning I will be able to see
> better. I will do another water change when I get home which will help
> too. Depending on whether I see life or not, I might drain the pond over
> the weekend, which will also give me a chance to get rid of some of the
> plants. ( she has too many of them too).
>
>
> I had a microburst here a few years ago..... the same thing happened
> then too, but the power came back on in a short time and I was able to
> save most of the fish.
>
>
> Donna
>
> Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> Glad you're ok. How did you lose the fish?
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Donna and tornadoes
>
>
> >I survied all the storms so far without any damage to worry about. (but
> > another round is coming I hear) Lotsa clean up to do and I did loose
> > most of my fish in the ponds. So many are not as fortunate as the
> > tornado went airborn as it went over my house. I still don't have power
> > at home, but came to work to get these computers running since they do
> > have power.
> >
> >
> > Might be 2-4 days before I get power at home. Have a couple of
> > generators running the important stuff at my house and mothers...sump
> > pumps, freezers, and one fridge. The good thing is my town after the
> > last time we didn't have power for days, has installed natural gas
> > generators on the wells... so we have water! Yeah!
> >
> >
> > Donna
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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