Three days ago we got 2.75 inches of rain. Yesterday to this morning The gauge overflowed so we had over 5 inches.We’ve had warm weather for almost a week. All the garden stuff is a month behind. I’ve been almost unable to move and doing anything is a big deal for the last 6 weeks. The lawn that flooded last August finally drained in the beginning of May. That part didn’t even need mowing yet and it’s June. The lower garden beds are under water again, and I fucking give up. You will get no updates and pictures this year, I can’t force myself to do stuff, when it’s so painful, and I’m not getting anything but grief. The storm three days ago killed the sump pump sensor, so we have to run downstairs to turn it on and off. The problem is we only have found one pump and sensor that fits the application over the years and this sensor hasn’t been made for at least three years. A float sensor won’t work.
The small seedlings in the almost bare fields were washed out. I estimate a third of the field is the typical loss on the already behind crops. The corn has just come up, and needs to be a few feet tall in three weeks. They may be putting in corn silage this year instead of corn. The extra water has likely doomed the entire fields of a few farmers, because they will remain saturated to long. Two weeks ago the farmers I talked to still had no hay cutting yet and they couldn’t feed them what was on the field or they’d be short this winter.
I would have gotten some pictures of the storm damage, but the the driver wouldn’t stop for 30 seconds to let me snap them. A patch of large pines on about one acre, had about 50% of the tops snapped off. Being they were trimmed for lumber production, they are now limbless poles. In that area there were a lot of patches of thick oak forest that were down or laying almost down on the ground. One barn had the side boards on the loft blown out. The sheet metal storage shed had a section about 15 feet by 10 feet ripped up like an explosion in the building had made a hole. Away from there , damage of small patches randomly occurred through out the two counties I was in. A few people had large trees on buildings, and most have tree debris to clean up. All the roads were covered in tree leaf clusters.
I’m off to bring in my cactus before they submerge and rot. I guess it will have to wait, a new deluge just started.
I’ll swap you some rain for the upper-90s weather we’re having now. Lat year’s drought is still affecting things here, and spring was almost non-existent.
whimper… the corn is grey and dried out, the roadsides are bleached like Southern California, and the daily heat index is over 104F. A visiting researcher from Egypt is aghast at the heat and the rivers are about to return to the muddy pathways of last year. Luckily,
I import canned water from Milwaukee and can share in your bounty while suffering in the desert that is Georgia.
All three basements are flooded and the water is to my knees on the lawn. I’ve experienced flood and drought. Drought is my preference. Everything living is dead either way, but flood clean up is a super big bitch. Your possessions don’t rot in a drought. Back to the clean up, lunch is over, the rain isn’t.
Well, we got hit by buckets and buckets of rain since my last post in this thread. Very entertaining. Discovered a new leak in the ceiling. My house truly is on an island at present, but the basement is quite dry, and the sumps aren’t even full.
A friend and I drove out into the country for a picnic yesterday. We crossed three places where water was flowing fast over the road (safely, thankfully), then had to go six miles out of our way to get around an intersection where the water was so deep that children were swimming in it. Not wading. Not splashing. Swimming. :eek:
We, too, made the joke that it was a good year for farmers to plant rice. The corn is only a few inches high, here.
Harmonious Discord, what part of Wisconsin are you in? I went to a graduation party yesterday and in our area we already have mosquitos. My SIL said they they are “growing mud” in the field next to their yard (it will hopefully be a successful corn field eventually). I don’t know how much rain we’ve gotten, but I don’t think we’re done yet.
I’m in Columbia county and we have concern over Marquette county for the family. The Madison siblings are OK.
I have to move the electronics and other stuff out of the basmentf, because with a wet floor that won’t dry, the wet air in the basement will have everything ruined. I’ve only been trying to seal the main basement for over 6 monthes and the leaking hasn’t stopped long enough to do it. It’s not a little water on the seam, its a steady flow right now. One basement hasn’t had water for about 15 years, and I had to pump out 3 inches of water there. Luckily we found a $800 sensor to operate the burned out one. It needs to 0run every 5 minutes.
There are carp in the yard right now. They came trough the large marsh and onto the yard. My brother broke off the spear last month, so we can’t spear them. I can’t wait for all the snakes that are going to be everywhere above water.
I live on a peninsula of perhaps 200 square miles, more of an island, really, and one benefit is that since there isn’t enough watershed area to generate large rivers, the only streams are small creeks. Flash floods, if they happen at all, are only a few hours long. And with my house high on a sand dune, the drainage is exceptional. At least Lake Michigan hasn’t risen much – then I’d really be in trouble. Maybe I could float down to QtM’s island.
I feel sorry for the farmers. Just as they were feeling good about the decent moisture held over from a good winter, they now have to contend with too-wet fields. I understand the local cherry crop this year will be almost nonexistent.
My dad and brother are farmers, mostly corn and soy beans. Dad told me that this is the first year ever in all his years of farming (he’s 75), this is the first year ever that he has fields that have areas that he won’t be able to plant at all.
And I think we have another storm moving in very soon.
Three large potato farms are now tits up. The crop is going to rot in the flooded fields. Briggsville has a larger storm damage problem than the rest of the area, not that the whole area doesn’t have damage. Most of the already late crops are shot. This can’t drain fast enough to save crops, that are just under water, and not washed out.
The water has continued to rise all day and we’re still having down pours. I guess I’ll be sealing off the bottom of the outside basement door with silicone and lumber to allow for an extra foot or so of water height. Higher than that and we wont give a shit.Six more inches of water height and things will be a lot worse for us. Like it will be pouring in through the basement doors, and the house will be a very small island. Considering it’s going to rain for days yet, I think we can count on higher water.
HD, what is the source of the flooding (what river or stream)? It would be good to know what it is predicted to crest at. I hope you are in a position to evacuate if you need to. I just read a NOAA report and it looks like the crest is not here yet, in the areas of WI they were talking about.
Every river, stream and creek is flooded. The one I’m dealing with is the Fox.
On highway 51 by Poynette a creek is so high that the bridge underside is at water level on the exit side. Air is coming up on that side after being trapped and making water jet into the air about five feet. There she blows captain.
On two of the potato farms they were trying to pump out the fields, but they should just stop on those too. With the cold wet spring they were already in a pinch. Now the seed potato chunks are coming to the surface of the water.
