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ranch77rocket

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Might have to build an ark. :( After about 5½" of rain in less than 24 hours, here's what it looks like around here. Four inches of the 5½ came in about an hour yesterday morning. This is on top of some pretty bountiful rainfall in the last two weeks. It's probably about as close to flooding as it will ever get in the sandhills. There's tremendous damage to the roads in this county, especially in the southern end.

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pic of our trail going out to the road

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another of the trail

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more of the trail

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another storm brewing

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county road looking north

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county road looking south

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culvert inlet

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culvert outlet
 
Man that was a down pour!

We have been getting a lot of rain also but not all at once like that!

Thanks for the pics, hope your roads are repaired shortly.
 
Shortgrass said:
We would love to have your excess. Sure dry here. Story of the shortgrass country.
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Shortgrass, I hope you get some rain soon. We were not suppose to be short grass country here, but it has been working real hard the last 15 years here to turn into short grass country. Colorado has been getting big rain in spots, not out your way I guess. Did it green up at all this spring?
 
Dylan Biggs said:
allen57 said:
Dylan Biggs said:
ranch77rocket, what is gopher wood?
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It is what Noah built The Ark out of....
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Where do gopher trees grow?

Or is it when you send the kids to "go for wood"?
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You're kind of like everyone else- nobody knows.. Just old Noah....

The Hebrew word "gopher" is used only once in the Bible, in Genesis 6:14. God told Noah to "make yourself an ark of gopher wood." Because no one knows for certain what "gopher" means in this context, the King James Version and the New King James Version simply leave the word untranslated and say "gopher" wood.
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Dylan Biggs said:
Thanks OT! :D
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Yeah- but I still don't know what to build my ark with.... :wink: :lol:

I'll never doubt the old farmers tale of "90 days past the fog brings rain" again....


We've gotten 9.25 inchs since the first of the year...More than we get all year some years...

We've picked up about an inch and half this last week- and water is standing everywhere..Seems to rain a little every few days since the first of May...Still haven't branded because the corrals are so wet/sloppy- and creek crossing flooded.. Saw a fellow today branding- and he'd set up some portable corrals right next to the highway...

Creeks are flooding for the second or third time this year (didn't run at all this spring)- and the muddy old Milk River has been bankfull for over a month now.... Apparently right along the Canadian line and north they picked up 2-3 inchs the other day- and that has the creeks flooding my hay bottoms again... :)

Hearing more of the oldtimers saying this is the greenest and most grass they've ever seen in this country...And I'm hearing this condition covers a good part of Montana...
Life is good....Just hope the faucet doesn't turn completely off for months on July 1 like it did last year...
 
That's great OT!

Basically the same story here. An unreal turn around.

All the DU projects are flowing. A good size lake east of here has not been full for almost 20 years. Looks like it will fill now. :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
Oldtimer said:
Dylan Biggs said:
Thanks OT! :D
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Yeah- but I still don't know what to build my ark with.... :wink: :lol:

I'll never doubt the old farmers tale of "90 days past the fog brings rain" again....


We've gotten 9.25 inchs since the first of the year...More than we get all year some years...

We've picked up about an inch and half this last week- and water is standing everywhere..Seems to rain a little every few days since the first of May...Still haven't branded because the corrals are so wet/sloppy- and creek crossing flooded.. Saw a fellow today branding- and he'd set up some portable corrals right next to the highway...

Creeks are flooding for the second or third time this year (didn't run at all this spring)- and the muddy old Milk River has been bankfull for over a month now.... Apparently right along the Canadian line and north they picked up 2-3 inchs the other day- and that has the creeks flooding my hay bottoms again... :)

Hearing more of the oldtimers saying this is the greenest and most grass they've ever seen in this country...And I'm hearing this condition covers a good part of Montana...
Life is good....Just hope the faucet doesn't turn completely off for months on July 1 like it did last year...
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here at the ranch we only had 2.5 tenths in the gauge yesterday and just west of Big Beaver 20 miles away they had 3 inches. The Beaver Creek was a 100 yards wide in places where i had stepped over it just a few days ago.
 
I am working in Douglas, WY right on the Platte River and it is like way out of the banks, they have warnings to stay clear...with the snow melt and the rains it is running high and fast. I am use to this in East Texas but, geezzz when is going to stop here?? ;) I love this area though, it has been so tranquil till now...lol I was just glad to work here during the summer to miss the HEAT and Humidity ..then it follows me lol
 
DustDevil said:
A long time ago, I heard a preacher say that Gopher Wood was Cypress; I don't know if that was based on research or S.W.A.G or Opinion.
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From my rememberance of history- and theology class- that is what the historians are "speculating" it was- because of the area they believe Noah inhabited at the time of the Great Flood....

But since no proof has ever been found- old Noah is still the only to know ...

Sun came out today- and creeks went down- so maybe I won't need to find out..... :wink: :lol:
 
Dylan Biggs said:
Shortgrass said:
We would love to have your excess. Sure dry here. Story of the shortgrass country.
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Shortgrass, I hope you get some rain soon. We were not suppose to be short grass country here, but it has been working real hard the last 15 years here to turn into short grass country. Colorado has been getting big rain in spots, not out your way I guess. Did it green up at all this spring?
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Sorry Dylan, I just revisited this post. It did green up nicely. We had deep winter moisture, but no rain since, and plenty of big winds. Lately have had some real hot and hard wind day and night. I am surprised that we are as green as we are. The grass is hard, and calves are blooming. Last night we had .2, and real cool weather today-the most in several weeks. We'll get a turn one of these times.
 
All this talk about Gopher Wood and The Ark made me think about a show i was watching on PBS years ago. They were talking about images of the Earth from outer space, from the Space Shuttle, in particular. One thing that really stuck in my mind was they said the topography of the Nebraska Sandhills, from outer space, resembeled sand ripples in a creek bed and that they were formed by water and not wind and not over a period of millions or even thousands of years, but over a period of weeks. I don't know if they realized the correlation they were making, but I said out loud that that sounds like 40 days and 40 nights to me. 8)
 

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