Rain rain go away!

whiskeylivewire · #21 04/24/11, 04:27 PM

It's pouring down here again as well. We figure if we can't work in the garden then we're going fishing! They haven't let water out at the Stockton Dam though and one of our fishing spots might be under water by now.

tarbe · #22 04/24/11, 10:31 PM

Looks like my weather site is catching up to reality....now shows 6.3 inches of rain in April at Wasola...most of it in the last 14 days...and more coming.

At least all the ponds will be full and the creeks/springs will be flowing...for a while.

In South Texas it never matters how much rain we get....the first day without rain is always the first day of the new drought!

How's that for optimism?

gone-a-milkin · #23 04/24/11, 10:36 PM

tarbe, just wait til you get here.

Usually May is the rainiest month. Not sure what we will see this year.
2 years ago it rained 9 inches in 2 days where I live, in May.
Rainfall that month was over 22" (!!) It is pretty hard to imagine it, until it happens.

Right now it is raining, thunder and lightening, full-on storm.

It starts to get tiresome...

tarbe · #24 04/25/11, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by gone-a-milkin

tarbe, just wait til you get here.

Usually May is the rainiest month. Not sure what we will see this year.
2 years ago it rained 9 inches in 2 days where I live, in May.
Rainfall that month was over 22" (!!) It is pretty hard to imagine it, until it happens.

Right now it is raining, thunder and lightening, full-on storm.

It starts to get tiresome...

Weather page says 9.25 inches now. Finally catching up.

I actually live in Houston....so we are used to more rain than Ozark county normally gets...and being coastal we do get hammered with deluges at least several times a year, even without a hurricane event.

But, anytime anyplace gets a month's rain in one weekend, you take notice!!

Ozark county is over double the normal now for April.

Seems like feast or famine when it comes to rain. We now have the famine her in TX.

edit: forgot to mention....the greatest rain event I can recall was 35" from tropical storm Allison in '01. We had semi-trucks floating down I-10...looked like a river!

Kathie · #25 04/25/11, 01:22 PM

It can be feast or famine, chicken or feathers! In the 1980's we started feeding hay to our cattle in July and didn't stop until the winter was over. We fed square bales at that time and that was a lotta work day after day. It just was so dry we had to do it or sell the cattle. Looking back, it would have been best to just sell those cattle and buy back after it started raining again. Live and learn.

big rockpile · #26 04/25/11, 03:56 PM

My wife went 65 HWY to Springfield said Cars were hydroplaning going off the road,said Fellows Lake looked twice its normal size.

big rockpile

whiskeylivewire · #27 04/25/11, 04:11 PM

We're catching up to y'all that are south of us. I haven't checked out exactly how much but it hasn't stopped for 2 days now at all.

CarolynRenee · #28 04/25/11, 04:24 PM

We have friends on the White River in Norfork....anyone on the White & how bad is it?

Bull Shoals dam is up 8 feet since last week, and that was the measurement from early this morning.

We had devistating flooding three years ago in early April that destroyed dozens of homes on the White River.......hoping it's not that "100 year" flood again!

SmokeEater2 · #29 04/25/11, 05:53 PM

CarolynRenee, I'm in Mountain Home just down the road from Norfork and we are still getting a lot of rain. Here's an excerpt from the local radio station (KTLO) about the situation in Norfork.

Jon Hiser with the Army Corps of Engineers office in Mountain Home said they were expecting an update anytime from the hydrology section in the Little Rock office on the projections for the White and North Fork Rivers as well as Bull Shoals and Norfork Lakes. Both lakes have risen over
eight feet since late last week and are continuing to rise. The increase has also resulted in a large amount of debris into both lakes making boating hazardous.
Norfork Fire Chief Frankie Baker said late this morning residents of the Norfork area needing assistance can call his cell phone at 321-4760 and they will assist in whatever way they can as the rivers continue to rise. Baker said, with the help of the county and the Red Cross, they have established an emergency shelter at the Norfork Community Building if home
evacuations become necessary due to the high water. Baker called the situation "touchy" saying they are monitoring the rivers almost hourly.
Home owners and businesses along the White and North Fork Rivers downstream from the Buffalo and Crooked Creek took the brunt of flood waters from similar heavy rains a couple of years ago and are naturally leary.
On another weather related note, Chief Baker said if a tornado threat materializes in the next couple of days they have coordinated with the Assembly of God and the First Baptist Churches in Norfork to have their basements opened as tornado shelters.
That threat has decreased some with the main concern being the rains with 7.18 inches being recorded in Mountain Home since Thursday night with 3.45 inches falling between 7 a.m. Sunday and noon today.
Baxter County Road and Bridge Superintendent Bob Nault said about mid-morning they have closed a couple of county roads where there are dangerous low water bridge crossings.

crow67 · #30 04/25/11, 07:21 PM

they just said that someplaces in the county probably 15+" and there are several road closings and a few more hours of rain to come

SmokeEater2 · #31 04/25/11, 08:44 PM

This afternoon The rain picked up and was really hammering down and that was the final straw for one of my ponds. I was born on this farm 50 years ago and today was the first time I've ever seen it jump it's banks. The entire lower pasture went underwater and I figure the catfish are headed downstream somewhere.

It's SUPPOSED to stop tomorrow and then resume again wed., still raining right now though.

CarolynRenee · #32 04/25/11, 09:47 PM

Sorry to hear about your catfish SmokeEater2! My raised beds are underwater and all my seedlings are probably long gone.

nehimama · #33 04/25/11, 10:07 PM

All three of my barns have some degree of flooding! Me and my critters are pretty tired of this. I felt like I needed to don scuba gear to do the evening milking. As another poster commented, it's too bad we can't bank some of this rain for later on this summer!

salmonslayer · #34 04/25/11, 10:08 PM

We got hammered today and even though we had the trash pump out trying to de-water the barn we had to evacuate the dairy barn and move our bottle baby to the pole barn when the upper pond crested the dam and brought about 2 more feet into the dairy barn. I have never seen so much rain come down in such quantity. Our dam seems to be holding and it crested off to the side so its reallt just causing a mess but we were freaked out for a bit.

The poor folks down around West Plains are getting even more hammered than we are, dont know what the heck is going on but this weather is out of control.

Mark Twain · #35 04/25/11, 10:31 PM

I was checking the USGS site for Beaver Creek and at Bradleyville it set a new record of 19.63 feet, big difference since on Thursday it was 3'.
The NWS service had some pictures posted and I was sad to see that Hodgson Mill is flooded again.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/Events/2...4/pictures.php
Sounds like the east side of the glade top got even more rain, hope you all are safe and dry.

showpigann · #36 04/25/11, 11:08 PM

I know what you mean. I am in NE Ok we have had rain for 2 days. Maybe a 5 min break every once in awhile. My poor tomatoes are floating. I swear I saw the pigs doing the back stroke.

kara_leigh · #37 04/26/11, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark Twain

I was checking the USGS site for Beaver Creek and at Bradleyville it set a new record of 19.63 feet, big difference since on Thursday it was 3'.

We live just south of Bradleyville. My husband tried to go to the store today. He first tried taking DD toward Forsyth and it was impassable due to high water. He then tried going to Ava, same thing. He finally got to Ozark, and said that if it continued to rain that we wouldn't be able to get their either b/c we wouldn't be able to get to Bradleyville. There is a huge pile of dirt (about 8' tall) covered with a tarp right next to the school, and it is almost completely covered in water. My husband took pictures, and I'm trying to get ahold of them. We come from Omaha, NE and nothing like this has ever happened up there. This is just so foreign to us.

CarolynRenee · #38 04/26/11, 07:18 AM

The Buffalo National River this morning at the Highway 14 Bridge in southern Marion County was at 36.03 feet and continuing to rise. The normal level is 5 feet.
From KTLO this am

Praying for everyone....humans & animals!

tarbe · #39 05/05/11, 10:43 PM

Heading up to Ozark County Friday morning.

No telling how the dirt roads are doing. Will definitely have our hiking boots on!