Things are a bit damp around here..pics..

[Mark(mo)]

I got to climb back in the cockpit yesterday and took a look around.
First pic is looking east my farm is in the foreground. It looks like we're going to get lucky here. There was a major levee breech yesteday afternoon that will take a lot of pressure off our levees down here.

Here is the area where the breech occured. The highway you see in the pic is now under water and closed. If you look close, right, and above center you can see water spilling over the levees. This is were the breech occured. This pic is looking west of the town of Brunswick.

We may have to hold off on the forum hunt for a year???? The big body of water in the middle is us. We will be offering water skiing classes starting this weekend! I'll have to get the picture of the Redneck yacht club. Ira's house with the pontoon boat parked in the front yard.

Here's Ira house / duckcamp / Redneck yacht club

 

[Carl]

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[Dani]

Mark-

If you could send a lot of that water our way to help put out our state that is on fire, I would really appreciate it

Hope you're doing well and that your house hasn't floated away.

 

[ira]

Water rose another 6" since those pics and I got a call last night that there was water in the crawl space under the house. Hopefully we wont get any more rain as things are cresting at the camp right now. Still have about 10" before it would be an insurance claim on the house.....

The 10,000 seedlings that we planted 18 days ago are not real happy right about now! I looked at them on Friday before the flood and they were all beginning to leaf out.

 

[Kyle Ritter]

Not completely clear on your location, I'm right @ I-70 and 291 in Independence, and last night/early morning we got another 1-2" dumped on us. Our boil order just got lifted yesterday afternoon.

Kyle

 

[TimJ]

Didn't they want a surge down the river about this time each spring?
Bummer it is getting Ira's place.
About the same thing is happening along the James River valley here in SD, little smaller scale. Aberdeen had 3/4 of it's streets flooded after 8" of rain. Good thing is that by the time the Jim drains into the Missouri your water will be long gone.
If our pond counts are down this year someone is lying.

Tim

 

[ira]

Kyle, the house is in Sumner and the farm is just up the road torwards Fountain Grove.

Time, you are thinking of the Missouri. I dont think that the sturgeon need quite this much of a flush. Going to cut into the ethanol production in these parts this year for sure! Marks other farm is on the Missouri. Our farm in Sumner is on the Grand River. World is one big ocean up there...... More levees breaking every hour still.

 

[Dave Parks]

Yike's Mark!

Hunting flooded timber is fun, but NOT that flooded. 57 years ago I was in Kansas when we got rain & flooding like that. My grandfather farmed bottomland along the Neosho River near Iola, KS. In 1960 I was in Kamsas when a tornado missed us by a half mile, but it leveled the west side of Topeka, KS. There is just nothing you can do but wait it out. Like tornado's, flooding is common to that river country. Hope your place dries out soon. The photo's gives one a good perspective of the damage that can be done.

Take care & hang in there,

Dave