We've had a lot of rain here the last few days, too......Saturday, measured 1.7" in the rain guage.......clouded up again this afternoon, lightening, thunder, the whole nine yards. Hope the guys are ok.....I always worry when they're out riding in lightening. Hubby had a close call (in the pre-me days) with lightening.......the story he tells sounds pretty scary. :shock:
But you're right.......the feed's coming on strong here, too!!!!! Looks great to peek out and see all that green, instead of that brownish yellow stuff we had here last month.
I always got tickled, when I told those flatlanders that they don't know what a flood is.......the water just gets higher and higher, not faster or more destructive like it does in our mountains. Back in Nov-Dec of 78, we had a massive flood in the creek we lived on........that water was 5-6' deep and washed from mountain to mountain.......heck of a lotta water headed to Arizona! It took out our road, electric & telephone lines........my baby brother (not quite a year old at the time) was not a happy camper. He liked his lights at night, and tv to watch sometimes. The sisters got stuck at Grandma's house from school, Dad was stranded at work, I would have been, but my boss said we couldn't do much in the rain we were having and sent me home. Dad waded in the shallows of the creek for about 4 miles, to get home......crazy stunt, but try telling him he should have gone to Grandma's with the sisters....... :roll: It was over a week before we had contact with the outside world, and had no idea he was headed home in that.....if he'd not showed up, no one would have known for a week that he was missing. :?
I mentioned that I wasn't all that impressed with the Mississippi when I went over it.......there were some folks that just got all high behind over that. Really, all it looked like to me, was a big ole mud puddle......you couldn't even see the water moving. :roll:
