Flood of 2011

This flood was not quite as dramatic as the Flood(s) of 2010. But still, I wasn't expecting it. I was all geared up to head out to civilization. I was merrily driving down my driveway and see this:

Not going anywhere.

Yikes!

The last flood was up to that last rung of the gate. But it was enough to keep me at home!

Lots of debris.

But blue skies!

A Morning Walk to the River

This was a coupla weeks ago, when we'd had a bit of rain. You can see the river is almost to the road:

Love these photos--they captured that glorious golden light!

Another flood shot.

Love the moss! It's the one green thing in the winter.

Neighbor Dave & Carol's river lot. Again, you can see the water spilling past the trees.

Trees in the winter are like beautiful sculptures. I love all the seasons!

Just past the postboxes; gorgeous view of the road heading out.

Back up toward the driveway. See the river spilling thru all the leaves?

And back up the hill to my little house:

View thru the apple tree branches, just getting ready to bud.

Day of Rest

Dripping wet.

Here you go, Mum: flood pix from this a.m.

Floating Dock is still safe.

Water is up another coupla rungs on the gate.
Still not going anywhere. Stop Laughing!

Another one???

Besides being a choclately brown, the river looked a bit . . . fast this morning. So I walked down to check it out:

*Sigh*

No venturing out into civilization today for me!

Another flood.

Flood Aftermath

Here are few pix after the flood:

Soupy & wet.

This gives you an idea of how high the water was.

Still high, but the floating dock is safe!

Mmmm...river mud with the water pattern.

Snowy pix on the way . . . HAPPY Saturday! :-)

More Flood Photos

Yesterday's sunrise. :-)

Look!

A beaver!

What a wacky winter! Blizzard . . . flood . . . locusts & pestilence next? Hahahaha

FLOOD

Usually I go for a walk to my post box in the afternoon. Something prompted me to walk down in the morning yesterday . . . we had a tremendous amount of rain last night. It poured. The water was a bit high:

See? Overall Beach is flooded.

Overall Creek, rushing into the river. It sounded like rapids!
Acting like a real river.

I got to my postbox--jackpot! Birthday cards--YAY, me! A couple hours later, I was tippy-tapping away at the computer, and Millie is staring out the window. Periodically, she gives a woof.


Sometimes she barks at cars or airplanes. Not this time. Yesterday, she was barking at the river. I stood behind her and you could see the movement of the river. Every time a tree or something floated by, she barked. Then Maggie joined her:

Like TV for dogs.

The river had risen a bit so I walked down . . .

Well this puts a damper on going into town today!

You can't see them, but in the photo below, across the river, 2 people on a 4-wheeler had gone along side the river down a ways. They just barely made it back; in that 10 minutes, the road had already been covered by water. That's how fast the water was rising.

So I went back to the house. And then! More woofing and I looked out the window and it seemed that there were more trees floating even faster down stream. Was that a refrigerator I just saw? So I walked back down to the river:

WOW!

Neighbor Dave at a safe distance.

Definitely not going anywhere!

2003 Flood

Neighbor Dave sent me these really cool photos of the last BIG flood. Where the water meets the grass is where the road is. Sorta.

Mailboxes!

Here they are normally; different angle.