With the golf course being 30 years old, it isn't very often that we can say that, "We've never seen that before." An exception to this occurred last week as the remnants of Ian passed by, and then became a Nor'easter, slowly dumping crazy amounts of rain over a five day period.
When the skies finally cleared, we had accumulated over five inches of rain in the first five days of the month. If we didn't receive another drop for the remaining 26 days of October, we would still be 43% above average precipitation totals for the month.
32,500,000 gallons of water fell on the golf course itself. If we include the surrounding residential area which drains onto the course, the total is 68,600,000. With water weighing 8.3 pounds per gallon, that's 270 million pounds of water that landed on the course!
So what was the first time out of this? Well, unless there was snow on the ground, we have never come close to six days in a row when we couldn't allow carts on the golf course.
If nothing else, this map should change dramatically in the near future. One other benefit was that the slow soaking rain was helpful in establishing all of the newly installed sod on the course.
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