Tornadoes suck, as does nearly everything that goes along with them. Over the last several days we’ve had to worry about several tornado watches/warnings. One had us driving North at midnight to keep us out of it’s path.
The worst part so far though have been the torrential rains over the last few days which have wreaked absolute havoc on the property here. We’ve had to re-tractor the road half a dozen times at least. We’ve unstuck six vehicles (yes, six!). We had so much water flowing over the bridge by the property entrance, that it caused a foot to foot and a half deep, six foot wide chasm that cut across the entrance making it unusable until we got a tractor down there to cut a way through.
We had a small fishing boat that somehow traveled from the big lake, over the spillway, down the waterfall, across the small lake, over the spillway, and got stuck in a tree on it’s way into the canyon.
We also had to patch the dam on the swimming lake because it was eroding where the water was making it over the top. Basically, while no tornado actually hit, all the weather that surrounded them has caused our property to look almost as if it WAS hit by one:
This was a phone poll down in one of our creeks.
More down trees. These ones split open. Not sure if it was lightning or just a rough landing.
This is my niece wondering why the bridge isn’t up there where she can use it!
Another look one of the bridges the storm moved.
We have trees down line this near lots of creeks.
We have trees down line this near lots of creeks.
The reason there’s a big branch in the bridge, is that the creek was flowing OVER it when the flooding was at it’s peak.
Yep, that’s not where it’s supposed to be.
Anything low is flooded. This is actually not far from the down bridge, which means we can’t yet get a tractor in to try to fix the bridge
The lakes look filthy because of all the moving water stirring up all the mud.
This kind of thing has been a problem all over, some of it crossing roads or on lake dams.
This is usually one of the small creeks!
The property has been hard to traverse because so many of the roads are flooded.
In a lot of places where creeks or spillovers redirected due to excess water, erosion has been a problem.
In a lot of places where creeks or spillovers redirected due to excess water, erosion has been a problem.
Not all the wildlife made it through the crazy weather.
The waterfall from the fishing lake to the swimming lake is running pretty hard.
The lakes look filthy because of all the moving water stirring up all the mud.
We have trees down line this near lots of creeks.
The lakes look filthy because of all the moving water stirring up all the mud.
Getting Internet back after the storm
There was a tree that fell near one of the cabins. I have no idea why, but it actually split in two and fell down two sides of the cabin but barely nicked the cabin.
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