Coffee anyone ?

[farmerjan]

I bought some shavings for the chickens at a small feed store in town because of TSC being so busy. Their bedding is so wet there is no point in trying to turn it. Just added shavings ontop.
Id go get a truckload for $10 at the local sawmill, but my truck would be in the pasture til summer. Id never get it out with all this mud.

Boy, we can relate to that. It was all my son could do to get a roll of hay out in the pasture. He had to hold the brake on the one wheel going across the hill with the roll of hay on the bale spear.... and its a big 4 WD tractor....
Sun finally peaking out today. Getting windy, that will help some. But will take down trees with the ground so soupy. Water is running down the pasture in little streams just because there was so much rain.

 

[farmerjan]

Although it is not my place, in case anyone didn't know, @Latestarter passed away and @Devonviolet has started a thread, Tribute to Latestarter. Please visit it. I haven't known him near as long as most, but he will be sorely missed.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah.. I just heard... I am just... floored!



Very sad.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Yeah.. I just heard... I am just... floored!



Very sad.

 

[greybeard]

There are spillways to resivoirs in Mississippi full and overflowing....gonna cause problems in the Delta when it gets there....headed for the Mississippi River....they grow alot of rice, cotton, and beans over there.....sure hate it for them.

It's the flooding such as would occur in a big spring melt or other floods up on the Ohio and Missouri Rivers that really cause problems on the lower Miss River.
(Lower Mississippi is generally anything below Cairo Ill, but especially below the New Madrid floodway and Cape Girardeau Missouri.)

This is what the USCOE calls the Project Flood for the miss River and it is envisioned as the worst the river would ever get. You can see from this USCoE map, just how much flows in to the Miss River channel from the Missouri and Ohio Rivers compared to what the lower rivers and streams contribute.

The control structures are there to protect 2 areas and to prevent one singularity from happening. (by congressional mandate)
1. Cairo Ill
2. Baton Rouge and New Orleans La.
Singularity=the Mississippi River from flowing uncontrolled into the Atchafalya River Basin. Once it goes, it will be unlikely USCOE can ever get it back into it's historic channel.it's a shorter straighter shot down the Atchafalya to the Gulf than it's current channel past Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on. A few muffins left too. Wind is no longer roaring... now to clean up and access damage. Antenna is taken care of for now. But our farmhouse had a large amount of siding blow off...

 

[Baymule]

Glad that you are ok!

 

[Bruce]

So sorry @promiseacres, I hope you can get that wall covered up before soaking rains hit it.

 

[promiseacres]

So sorry @promiseacres, I hope you can get that wall covered up before soaking rains hit it.

Not sure our plan... there is very old wood siding under...this definitely makes residing a priority though...

 

[RollingAcres]

Sorry to hear about the siding on your house @promiseacres . Glad you guys are ok.