Flooded

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

It started rainin yesterday evenin about 6pm...in ernest. We had some powerful thunderstorms move thru, about the time the CMA awards were on, so we only got about half that watched before the satellite went capoot. Never lost power for more than a few seconds..so that was good. But boy did it rain. Had another line come thru about 1 am. It rained all night tho. Here at the house we got 4 1/4 inches of rain. Out at the pasture we got 4 and 7/10 inches.

I've always wondered....if that'd been snow...how much would it have been? LOL

Here's a few flood pictures. Mostly just an inconvenience in the pastures. Some roads closed because of water runnin over them, but not too many.
When these pictures were taken the water had already receded about 2 foot. So sometime early this mornin is when it was at it's worst.

The first two pictures are of our cow pasture.




This one is of our railroad bridge where one of the creeks comes into the place....our floodgates are completely gone...we'll hafta get right on that when the water goes down so that cows aren't out on the road. Fun fun LOL



Lil Lilly havin to bale water out of the feed traugh.......why it holds water is beyond me..but the next chance I get I'm takin a drill out there and drillin holes in the bottom of it so water don't stand in it.

[Jinglebob]

Man!

Rain like that would fill my dams up.

I think it would be 45 inches to about 4 1/2 feet of snow, JL. A wet snow can have an inch of moisture to 10 inches of snow. Dry snow might take a foot and a half to get an inch of rain.

It'd be a lot.

Glad all your crittewrs are alright.

[Faster horses]

NOW THAT'S WET, I don't care who ya are!!!!!!!

[Faster horses]

NOW THAT'S WET, I don't care who ya are!!!!!!!
Glad you are safe, animals and all. They said there
was some deaths in Texas caused by the ice storms.

[IluvAltaBeef]

Wow, that's a lot of rain Hope it ends soon enough for you.

Now, if that had been snow, I think it might've been about 3 to 4 feet of the white stuff, or more.

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

All of our tanks were already full...so all this rain was nothin but runnin over. Tank dams that have over flows are spewin water out. Our smaller tanks don't have over flows..it just runs out the low end of the tank. Hope the cat fish are on the bottom or they'll be pasture hoppin. I've lived here since March of 1989, and it still amazes me at the water that accumulates and then how fast it goes away when it stops rainin. I'm still a west texas girl at heart...LOL never knew it could rain like this till we came here. Big rain in west texas is 1/2 inch in a day.
The three horses out there are all up front by the corrals. All the other cows besides Lil Lilly's show heifers and the bulls, are all on the backside on higher ground. They just know...when it starts rainin.....they hightail it to the back. Usta bother me real bad that I couldn't see them, but we've only lost one calf in 16 years to drowning, and it fell off the edge of the creek into the water. Them mama's know when the water gets low enuff in the creek that the babies can cross too without problems.
LOL they may be dumb enuff to get hung on a bumper..but they are smart enuff to not drown in weather like this.

Thanks Jinglebob for the breakdown on water/snow.....I've always wondered....and I'm REALLY GLAD that wasn't snow!!!!

Guess I could tell everyone we had us a blizzard...only in thawed form.

[Jinglebob]

[HAY MAKER]

I wish it would rain like that around here,Lilly those water gaps can be alot of work,that's why I use a solar charger,with 3 strands of wire,tied loosely on one side,water and brush knock em down,and I just tie em back...............good luck

[Big Muddy rancher]

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Haymaker did you get any rain last night?

[HAY MAKER]

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Haymaker...you could always throw a chain and padlock on the gates, hook it to your truck and just drag your place on over here next to mine.....I've got a neighbor I don't particularly care for...park your place right there on top of him.... and you can have all the rain you want this time of year.