Not really a 1,000 year flood but it is really, really wet around here. The normal rainfall for October here is 3.75 inches. So far in this October, we have had around 11 inches. That is a lot more than normal. The ponds are super full and the ground squishes when we walk around outside. The ground is saturated to the max. Today we got close to two inches in less than an hour and all of it went as runoff. Needless to say, we had a little flash flooding going on. I have never seen it flood on the farm like it did today. I took a few pictures.
This is the main pond by the chicken coup. The water is going in from off the hill and out the spillway
This is below the other pond by the barn. That pond was overflowing like crazy and water was coming off the hill. It looks like a river
This is down by the road by the corner by the barn.
The culvert going under the road could not handle all the water and the water was going over the road. This is a whirlpool that was created where the water was going into the culvert. The whirlpool hole was about a foot wide.
3 comments:
Well, I am glad we(Ed, Clora,Lolah) were able to tour prior to this! My wc can vouch for the soft ground as the tires picked up a good supply of mud that I've been sharing every where I go!
wow. stay on high ground!
That close up of the whirlpool looks like a sticky, fleshy belly button - ugh! Scary!
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