Flash Flood! Pics

[Mellifluous]

We had a bit of flash flooding yesterday. I thought I would share :D Kev and I had no clue it was happening until his dad came knocking on the door like the police and told us about it.

I noticed something was amiss when there were small waterfalls coming through our little rock retaining wall next to the driveway.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_wall.jpg

So I turned to see how the garden was holding up, just a small flow, no biggie.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_garden.jpg

We went to the backyard next to the woods and discovered a nice creek and small waterfall. If only we had that year 'round!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_Falls.jpg

All of that water was going into Jimmy's (<--Kevin's dad) pond - which was running over the dam at that point.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_pond.jpg

So we walked down to Jimmy's to check it out! He has cute little creek behind his house about 200 feet away. This was the creek.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_Jimmys_Creek.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_Jimmys.jpg

Here is his house, it gives you an idea of scale
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_cabin.jpg

After seeing that, Kev and I decided that it was time to take the Jeep out on some dirt roads and see if we could find some water to drive through.
This was out of the question!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_Creek.jpg

Here is what it looked like after the water went down.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_Culvert.jpg

And here is Kevin at the top of what used to be our raging waterfall in the back yard. I am not sure what he was doing?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/FF_Kevin.jpg

[sandi45]

Really neat pictures.

Be careful though. Our TV weather person talked about flash floods a couple of days ago and said that water in flash floods only 6 inches deep could knock an adult off their feet and that water from a flash flood only 2 feet deep could move a car. I was astounded to hear those figures! That must be a lot of power. :shock:

[appyday]

Wow thats about how it looks here...I am building a ark as we speak..

[DebbieS]

Cool pics! We used to get flash flooding in AZ during the monsoon season. Yes, a little bit of fast-moving water can carry a 2 1/2 truck off pretty fast ;-)

[JennLM]

Yes please be careful. Ours starts this week and hopefully it will be as good last last year with none, but they are predicting it will be a doosey. At least I don't have to drive out of town to get to work anymore and have the 4x4. Almost seems unfair to Troy lol

[Brigitte]

Lol...normally people would be concerned and you go saying the creek's cute :lol: . Our rain season is supposed to be starting soon too.. :-?

[Laura S]

Wow and it looks like you guys are getting more rain today! You have a beautiful place and a nice garden BTW.

[motorgypsy]

9 inches day before yesterday. pond was up over a foot. Lots of flooding in town. What a mess!

[DSDECKERT]

Parts of Pennsylvania are really flooding - my office in West Conshohocken (Philadelphia area) is the only building open in the whole area. All of the roads except one are closed off.

Here is the view of the river from our offices:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/44504DSCN1921.JPG-med.jpg

They are expecting more rain, and the river is supposed to crest at 2 a.m. YIKES

PS - for reference, those trees are about 20 feet high!

[baileyholc]

WOW! that is a lot of water. :shock: