A Visit From "Mother Nature"

As we always say in this buisness you are not only battling pest,diseases, and traffic but a lot of the battle on a daily basis is dealing with the punches that "Mother Nature" delivers. Well this weekend she dealt us a pretty good blow! We received a little over 1" of rain fall and our temporary damns weren't able to hold back all the water. The rain was great for the rest of the golf course but not so much for our project on #5. Our creek area in front of #5 green filled up with water and we had to break another one of our temporary damns to allow for the water to get out and not cause anymore damage to our green. Today we are hooking up two 6" pumps to help pump down the creek. This process is going to take a few days and our hope is that we don't get anymore precipitation this week, however we are forecast to get snow on Wednesday. The silver lining in all of this is that Jack's crew was able to get a lot of the work completed prior to the rain event and we don't think it will take very long to get done once we get back to work. The majority of the dirt work on the green is completed so our hope is once we get the water out that it will go smoothly and we can get everything completed quickly. I have attached a couple of pictures below. One is from Friday showing the slope in place and the other is from Sunday after the water had filled up the area in front of the green. I will keep everyone up to date as things progress into the week.