HOW WET IS IT?

[EdKing]

Here is a pic of a pond I am filling in.

 

[EdKing]

Here is a pic of it today.

 

[butzkeg]

Good thing you put the culvert in!

 

[EdKing]

And finally, a pic of the driveway going to my barn.

 

[EdKing]

Actually, it is a good thing I left it open at the backend where it comes under the road, otherwise it would have flooded the road! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[EdKing]

<font color=red>flash flood warning for: greene county in pennsylvania
Until 445 pm edt
At 1249 pm edt, national weather service radar indicated heavier rain continuing over greene county pennsylvania into late afternoon. Locations getting over one and a half inches of rain can develop flooding in areas with poor drainage, and along small streams.
Locations in the warning include, GRAYSVILLE, rogersville, and waynesburg.
do not drive your vehicle into areas where the water covers the roadway. The water depth may be too great to allow your car to cross safely. Vehicles caught in rising water should be abandoned quickly. Move to higher ground.

Expires: 4:45 PM EDT 06/06/02</font color=red>

Just got this off of our local channels website. I live about 2 miles out of Graysville.

 

[rancar]

I got my new 4710 a little over 2 weeks ago. I've been able to put only about 1 hour seat time on it due to all the rain in upstate New Yiork over the past two weeks. Just last couple days I thought things were drying out. Now, last night, we had such an incredible amount of rain, most I've ever seen fall in so short a time period. Now have a creek running through my basement....this only happens in March after winter snows melt....never this late in the Spring season. Sadly, it looks like that 4710 will be sitting outside my breakfast room window just a bit longer until the upstate NY monsoon season ends. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif

 

[MarkV]

Ed,
You better keep an eye open tonight and see how the weather does. If there is a bright side, it looks like you have photo’s of the worst case scenario which may help you plan for drainage in the future.

Good luck,

MarkV

 

[frank_f15]

ED; appears u ain't going to be cutting any grass or doing any tractor work either.if we could take some of that extra water and sell it we could be rich/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif some of our fellow tbnrs are just dying to have some. ACTUALLY for our friends on tbn, the water is free if we could get it to u.. i think SKENT WAS ASKING FOR SOME!

 

[frank_f15]

YEP! GOT THE SAME STORM LAST NIGHT. but on the bright side it has not rained herer in the last 12 hours./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif nothing else to to but grin and bear it, but the work is piling up and the grass is growing and the dirt needs to be moved and graded and all i can do is watch it rain

 

[EdKing]

Believe me, if I could I would send anyone who needed it as much water as they could use. At this point I'd almost be willing to pay them to take it.

 

[EdKing]

Luckily, the grass seed I spread over the culvert had plenty of time to grow. I looked at the area after the water receded and none of the dirt washed away.

 

[jyoutz]

You're right that Tempe is always hot and dry. But for those of us who live in northern AZ mountain high country, our forests are in terrible condition and we are indeed in severe drought conditions. Also N Mexico and Colorado.

 

[shade2u2]

It may have finally stopped raining here in Ohio for a couple of days. I'm trying to get our new septic system in & some grading around the new house done. I hope the weatherman is right... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
One road in to our new house was flooded yesterday...

 

[frank_f15]

HOPE YOU GET SOME RAIN: did some sightseeing up that way i think. are you any where around monument valley?

 

[jyoutz]

No, I'm SE of there in an area called White Mnts. Country is timber just like around Flagstaff. Monument Valley and S Utah is pretty darn dry country.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Jim, I live in the valley and building a cabin in the Pinetop area, should be done in another month. I just hope and pray that no fire destroys one of the prettiest areas of our state..I just wish they'd close all of the forests right now, keep the idiots out who still have to have a campfire regardless of the restrictions.

 

[jyoutz]

BPin, well we are neighbors sort of. I live in the Linden area (about 5 miles west of Show Low). I am a forester on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. Yes fire hazard due to drought is very high right now. But fire hazard is always high due to forest condition. Our forests are way denser than was the historic norm prior to settlement of the area. We need to spend massive funding and efforts to thin forests back to a normal historic density. But of course this is not politically correct. Logging and thinning have bad connotations. Look for an article which I have co-authored to appear in the AZ Republic newspaper soon. It's written by the Society of American Foresters on this very topic.

 

[rancar]

Jim,

I'm interested in this topic. Could you post a copy of this article you co-authored? Thanks.

Bob

 

[jyoutz]

Bob, here it is. But as you can see, it's just a quick overview, designed to stay within a 625 word limit for the newspaper. Jim