Some days I walk across the pastures to see the river

[greybeard]

Some days, the river walks across the pasture and comes to see me.
The river is just beyond the farthermost trees in the distance.
Normal:

Note the 2 gates in this picture--it is the same location as the last pic in this post.

2 weeks ago:

Closest it has ever come to the house, but it would have had to rise another 6' vertically to get in the house. It came up in less than 8 hours, overnight Thursday night. By Sat night, it was all gone. Worst flooding here since late '80s

 

[Latestarter]

Wow, impressive. Glad it didn't rise 6' more. Hope no loss of animals trapped behind fencing and such.

 

[Mike CHS]

Glad everything turned out well. There has been some strange weather this year and last or so it seems.

 

[samssimonsays]

Wow, hopefully everything stays normal now. The weather has been crazy here too. We have had 3 occurrences already where the barn has flooded.

 

[Ferguson K]

That's to close for comfort! Glad everyone was okay!

 

[greybeard]

it was surreal, to wake up that fri morning, on a clear day and see all that water where there had been just dry land the sunset before. Another thing I just couldn't get used to all day, is seen in the last picture--that whitish line at the far edge of the water. Just beyond that, is a paved farm to market road, which had water coming over it from the forest beyond it. The water hit an old hog wire (woven wire) fence and it became clogged with leaves and other debris on the lower 1/3 of it, with the water cascading over the top of the debris in a long waterfall--I could hear the constant noise of that waterfall all day long from my back porch about 1000' away. It's why I use only individual strand fences, barbed wire or high tension slick wire on all my fences. In a flood, a woven wire fence would never hold up--the water behind the clog would lay the whole fence over or at least lean it over a lot. Being on the same property since 1965, ya learn a few things. And no, we lost no livestock--cattle are pretty smart and head for high ground. I'm sure tho, that most of my big catfish are now gone from my ponds.

 

[Latestarter]

Well, you can always hope to have picked up some large bass and maybe some crappie to replace what you lost. Do you have gators there?

 

[greybeard]

Do you have gators there?

Sometimes, but they just seem to 'disappear' not long after they show up.

Same way the colony of these critters did earlier this year:

Get some of these too, and they too just seem to go 'poof' and disappear.

We have a process here, of dealing with unwanted critters, and the state law is on our side.

(that's my wife on the far end with the 300 blackout.)

and a different day and different crowd a month before

 

[Ferguson K]

Was that yote snake bit?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I was wondering that too...