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04/18/13, 10:05 PM
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Flood!
2"+ of rain today, another 2" earlier this week. Getting pretty wet around here! Pictures were taken 2 hours ago. Only the top edge of the water tank is visible now. Bird house is mounted 5' high. 40 sheep and lambs and 2 horses still dry but not by much. It is still raining and the water is still rising. Will be a long night here.
If it gets any higher I will have to move them to my front yard. No shelter there but they won't be standing in water either.
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04/18/13, 10:08 PM
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Wow, wishing you the best and a break from the rain!
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04/19/13, 06:39 AM
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04/19/13, 08:48 AM
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i posted a Grand Rapids Michigan flooding photo on facebook, my son works just north of there and had to drive around flooded roads and barely was able to find a way to get to his workplace.
we have a lot of flooding up here too in N Mich
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04/19/13, 08:50 AM
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Hey, OP.......
NO KIDDING !!!!
I can hear the roar of two major levee breaks within three miles of me humble hillside abode as we cyber-speak.
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04/19/13, 08:53 AM
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Talked to our daughter yesterday that lives in Naperville. Streets were flooded way over the curbs and she had a flooded basement.
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04/19/13, 09:27 AM
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Scotties rule!
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Originally Posted by Merks
Are you in the town being evacuated?
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No. Pasture is the junction of 2 creeks and a RR trestle on the downstream side collects debris. If they clean the stuff off the trestle, I don't have any problems. If they don't it acts as a dam.
Water is just now receding out of the barn lot. Should be off the grass by tonight. Creek will probably run bank full for another couple days. Assuming no more rain!
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04/19/13, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by littlebitfarm
No. Pasture is the junction of 2 creeks and a RR trestle on the downstream side collects debris. If they clean the stuff off the trestle, I don't have any problems. If they don't it acts as a dam.
Water is just now receding out of the barn lot. Should be off the grass by tonight. Creek will probably run bank full for another couple days. Assuming no more rain!
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Not sure who 'they' is (responsible for cleaning the trestles) but you need to show them your pictures and give 'em what-for. 
Glad to hear the water's receding, for now.
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04/19/13, 07:57 PM
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Scotties rule!
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Originally Posted by Txsteader
Not sure who 'they' is (responsible for cleaning the trestles) but you need to show them your pictures and give 'em what-for. . |
"They" are the RR company. I've dealt with them for years. Might as well beat my head against the wall. I think I will approach the new road commissioner and point out how much pressure this flood puts on his 2 bridges and the road base. Once he realizes what the problem is I suspect he can lean on the RR much better than I can! I had the old county engineer on my side but he retired.
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04/19/13, 09:27 PM
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Pictures take me back 40 years. I was born in Illinois, always sick from the moisture and hating being road-bound most of the year. And SKEETERS! One nice day like the one in your pics, I had to wade around in the ditches with a 102 fever and mark where our drive was submerged with a broom and shovel sticking in the mud, so my wife could park without sinking in the ditch.
Went inside and got out the atlas. By the time the wife got home, I was marking Southwestern towns in the desert for exploration. We moved two years later, and have had a wonderful, health filled, hard-working life in Arizona and New Mexico. I can still close my eyes, though,and see flooded cornfields, bean fields, neighborhoods, etc.
Glad people still want to live there, though. Would hate to see all that black dirt go to waste....Joe
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04/19/13, 10:01 PM
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Am over here in St Louis, they predicted 1 inch of rain, we got 4, and that was after those two days of rain on Monday and Tuesday as you know, Floody. It was all gone today though, guess it is drier over here, and no creeks.
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04/19/13, 11:27 PM
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This area is normally dry other than a trickle running in front of the green path on the right in the background . DH took the picture after the water had subsided a bit. You can see how the high water bent over the fence and the high grass in the foreground.
London Mills is the town that was evacuated. It's close to Peoria. We actually had a rain day because some roads were impassable. We have never had such a thing.
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04/20/13, 04:33 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Forerunner
Hey, OP.......
NO KIDDING !!!!
I can hear the roar of two major levee breaks within three miles of me humble hillside abode as we cyber-speak.
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And you're smiling because your hydro-dam is functional????
If so, I may just have to make a run down there to take a look-see. 
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04/20/13, 05:18 AM
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It is functional.......and the overflow works real good.
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04/20/13, 08:12 AM
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5-6inches here. The reason some schools were out is there was no staff as they were all home with flooded basements. We had to have new weep tile installed around two sides of our house a couple of years ago. Best 10,000 we ever spent. Basement is dry!
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04/22/13, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by littlebitfarm
"They" are the RR company. I've dealt with them for years. Might as well beat my head against the wall.
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Ask them if the EPA ever gave approval for their dam, and ask for a copy of the environmental impact statement. 
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04/22/13, 09:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by farmerted
Am over here in St Louis, they predicted 1 inch of rain, we got 4, and that was after those two days of rain on Monday and Tuesday as you know, Floody. It was all gone today though, guess it is drier over here, and no creeks.
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Boy you people just wait till all that snow melts in Northern MN and yet to come down river.
They are going to get hit again tonight. With close to 10 or MORE inches of Wet heavy snow going to fall in that Upper Mississippi River Basin area.
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