Of high water & a fallen tree...

Yesterday morning we awoke to the sound of flood waters. It had rained over an inch for the second day in a row, and the creek along side our property had flooded over its’ banks.

Sometime during the night it got up over the road, though by the time I went out and took pictures, it had already mostly went back down.


There was more water over the road between our place and the neighbors on past us. This is where the creek actually passes through a culvert under the road.

Debris usually blocks some of the culvert and the swollen creek waters cannot pass through, so the creek overflows the banks. You can see and hear the water rushing and roaring as it comes out of the culvert.

This morning the creek has subsided a great deal. Here it is rushing over a fallen log.

Still, the water is running pretty fast, as you can see the way it is rushing over this limb dipping in the water.
I also noticed earlier this week, with the rain and strong winds we've been having, a tree has fallen along the edge of the woods by the bottom pasture.
Fortunately, we didn't get the tornadoes people in other partsof the state had, so we really didn't have much else but a few branches down.

A creek running high with excess water beats drought conditions any day!