Dykes told Creel that the built-in ceiling protected against the possibility of wet ground above, Creel said.
Rain and a wet ground meant the second day could not get under way until after an early lunch had been taken.
The co-organiser of the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park, Captain Mark Phillips, said that the "unprecedented rainfall" over the last month had produced "exceptionally wet ground conditions".
And the ground was too wet to drive the truck to the other hen house.
Over several hours of testimony an executive from Ohio's Department of Agriculture recounted a 2004 visit to Ohio Fresh Eggs, the nation's seventh-largest producer, where he saw hens afflicted with diarrhea and giant piles of wet manure, a breeding ground for maggots.
There have been been occasions, they said, where parts of the ground moved or collapsed because of the wet conditions.
In the region, heavy wet snow has pine trees bent over to the ground and power lines torn free from houses.
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Anyone standing outside during a run gets very wet because the vapour rains straight back down to the ground.
The water is also an excellent breeding ground for mosquitoes, particularly in the warm, wet climate of the Gulf Coast, which could mean a spike in mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile virus.
The shoebox was wet and, with each of us pulling, it came apart and the shoes dropped to the ground.
Some soccer teams wet the field before a match to make the ball roll faster, while baseball teams grow out grass to slow ground balls.
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