Last Friday afternoon July 14, 2017 we had a big rain event, it was localized and embedded near the farm. Just a few miles away it did not rain at all.
We lost power at the farm for a couple of hours, there were branches down in the road.
My next door farm neighbor has a pond that overflowed across Clifty Creek road, something I have not seen happen before, you could slowly drive through with a truck or SUV but you would not want to attempt with a lower / smaller vehicle.
Another neighbor had all of the rock and gravel washed away leaving a bare metal culvert pipe exposed at the entrance to his gravel access road.
At all of the water locations on the farm you can see where heavy water flow flattened the vegetation. In the wildlife pond the water flow plowed open and folded over two sections of thick sod, I saw it and it took me a little while to figure out what it was and what had happened.
I have a swale or dip near the bottom of the driveway to divert water and that dip was almost filled up with rock/gravel/sediment.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
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