I'm new here and quite frankly I'm at my wits end. Our neighbor across a State Highway has a creek on his property. Since the State didn't maintain a culvert that drains it and it blocked, it decided the best alternate route was down our driveway and under our MH., where it dumped into Puget Sound (Washington State). It was a literal river for almost a week.
Fortunately, so far, we've not found any major damage, just lots of mud. The water didn't rise high enough to get inside our home. When the water was finally re-routed and the water drained we were left with 4"-8" of mud in the yard. Also fortunately we are in an area where the mud was relatively "clean" and the water was moving quickly enough we aren't concerned about bacterial contamination.
But we still have a problem. All the mud that was in the yard is also UNDER the mobile home. I've searched everywhere and can't find a method to remove it, short of crawling under there and taking it out a small bucket at a time. The crawl space under there is not that high, probably fairly typical.
Has anyone ever had this problem or know how to get the mud out? Would it be OK to leave it there? The biggest problem is it is now freezing and impossible to dig it out. When it thaws, we're back to all that moisture under there. I am concerned about mold or damage the moisture could cause. We won't have warm weather until May or June---in fact the rainy season is just starting! And even if it dries out the mud is very silty and fine. I imagine we'll have fine dust on everything forever. I feel SO helpless!
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FYI, this is our summer home, so the heat is usually turned down (not off) during the winter. We inherited it a few years ago and are just learning about MH's. First lesson---older MH's don't have shutoff valves on the toilets! Don't ask!
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Oh, this is a 24 X 56, 1972 Kingswood double wide.
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Linda L