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This winter is finally giving up some its hold..
But its going to take one last swipe at us with the floods...
Milk River is 5 foot over flood stage- and predicted to raise another 3 feet at least...

My road to town- about a foot of water over it now...
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Willow Creek- which is about a mile south of me..
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The Milk River about a mile north of me..
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Where the two join about a mile and half east of me....
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Looks like you'll be wearing tall boots and short pants for while OT. I can't believe it doesn't look like that here. I don't know where all the water is going, but the creeks aren't even running yet :???:
Maybe all those giant crevices in the ground from last fall are sucking it up. Hopefully.
 
Many areas north of the Milk still have a foot of snowdepth on the level...
Our predicted 50's and 60's should start to get that moving too...
Hopefully most the runoff south of the river can get out of the country before
those north areas and the Canadian tributaries get too high....
 
Our snow finally got to a level yesterday that the cow and horses left the plowed off areas and started rummaging around in the trees and the bared off points. I suppose now we'll really have to start watching calves for scour symptoms as they will likely also be wandering about and laying in less than ideal conditions.
I noticed too that the culverts have opened themselves up this year which is odd. I wonder if it's because it froze so hard before we got snow last fall that they were more or less open already this spring.
 
Billings Gazette has some good flood pics:

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_9cd107f3-d0f4-54c7-a290-595096ae191a.html

I'm going on day 7 of being flooded in...
And it sounds like the waters may not recede for a couple more weeks...

And now today the Albertans sent us 30 degree temps and a mini blizzard
with 40mph winds and snow.... More moisture is not what we need.. :(
 
Heavy snowfall warnings here today. Supposed to get 6-8" , with high winds too. Well, high for us, gusts up to 20 mph or so. Never seen a winter hang on so long.
 
Yall can send it down here at any time you want....... :D :D
Sorry yall are having a wet time hope it drys up for you soon and not to the extent we have it dried up.
 
Still just nasty snow squalls here- with most melting as fast as it hits...

Here's one of my flood pictures I had posted on Facebook that Northern Ag Network put on their website of my cousins place which is about a mile from me:

http://www.northernag.net/AGNews/tabid/171/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3263/Milk-River-Before-After.aspx

If I get a chance to download some pictures later- I'll post some more...

One thing about this country- we know it will always dry up sometime...
 
Well our water is slowly dropping (only 3.5 feet over flood stage now) and the roads
only have short areas with water still over them (about the same as my first picture)....Yesterday I was able to avoid the deep
ruts and washed out areas and haul in a couple more bales of hay from the north place...
And yesterday afternoon Grandma made it thru with her Suburban (altho she had to wait about an hour because the Electric Co-Ops truck got stuck in the middle of the road and we had to take a 4 wheel drive tractor to pull it thru so it could fix a broken power pole that was taken down by the high winds) --- her first day home in 22 days....And she brought two granddaughters to spend the night that were missing Grandpa...
My days of peace and quiet are ended!! :wink: :P

Hoping the water will be off the roads completely by Monday and the County Road crew can get some gravel hauled in and the washed out and rutted areas fixed... If the roads can get fixed and dried out - us and several other neighbors are ready to start hauling cows out to summer pasture about mid week....
 
Man yall need to quit take up all that water and send it south. :wink: We had 2.25 inches at the ranch last week, but didn't get any at my house (22 mile south of ranch). We had a fire last week just south of our house that burn about 200 ac. It had me worried because of the south wind we had, but it got put out. Thank God!!
 
The local weatherman said that Texas was finally getting some much needed rain! I sure pray you get some relief.

But then he said we were not getting any and my rain guage says 1 1/2 " so far and still a light rain.

Rain forcast 6 of the next 8 days - - - - there is not a field planted anywhere that I can find in central Indiana - - - I went to the NRA convention in Pittsburg PA last friday and never saw any fields planted all the way between here and there!
 
George said:
The local weatherman said that Texas was finally getting some much needed rain! I sure pray you get some relief.

But then he said we were not getting any and my rain guage says 1 1/2 " so far and still a light rain.

Rain forcast 6 of the next 8 days - - - - there is not a field planted anywhere that I can find in central Indiana - - - I went to the NRA convention in Pittsburg PA last friday and never saw any fields planted all the way between here and there!
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Its all falling in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and not coming south. Well if it rains enough up there it will push the river out of it banks and I will get water that away. :wink:
 

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