Pics of the flooding here....

[April Manier]

Here is the road heading to the farm. Flooding peaked last night at about 10 pm. It was through our front field flowing our top soil to out neighbor. :-( But is down today and should recede by Saturday.

This is our neighbors wheat field. We watch it fill and creep towards the road!

It got up to the tree line in front of the house yard. This is the highest I have seen, but in 1996 it was up to the porch!

 

[Ridgerunner]

It's always something somewhere. Sorry it is you now.

If that is a private road, last year when our shared private road (five families lived on it) washed out to where it was practically not passible except to vehicles with a very high wheel base, FEMA actually payed a bit to help fix it. FEMA was not interested in bringing it back to the shape we had it in before the floods, which was real good, but just enough to let people get to work. The farmers on this road that had the heavy equipment used their equipment and time to actually fix the road, but the FEMA miney bought several loads of gravel and paid for some fuel for that heavy equipment.

FEMA is just something you might want to consider if you get an official disaster declaration in your county. It sure helped us.

 

[April Manier]

It's not so bad. We did think of our flood insurance. We maintain teh road and it isn't so bad. The pic here is a county road, but it enda at our property.

We will grate it and our neighbor will dump gravel. Really the flow wasn't too bad.

 

[lesa]

Wow, that wheat field looks like a nice sized lake! I am glad no serious damage occurred... What ever happened to "normal" weather?

 

[digitS']

My son has just moved from the east coast back to Portland vicinity.

He will be going on to visit people on the (west) coast, tomorrow.

He may actually be lucky if this next wave comes thru tonight: wind gusts as high as 60 mph and chance of precipitation at 100%! Of course, he may be faced with highway flooding and branches/trees in the roadway tomorrow morning. He hasn't been there for about 3 years and was happy to be back. Venturing out may not be such a good idea .

Steve