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I live on top of the hill from this little town, but it is the closest town to where I live. We have seen record rainfall for two days, plus the melt off from a record snowfall.
I am so glad I live on top of the hill
I put these on Imageshack as I want to keep my phjotobucket account for Steam items.
Mamodman123
Man thats bad, is that some sort of valley to be that full of water?
James
Bloody hell John! Would be alright for a Bowman boat
Can you swim? I can't
johnreid
Yes it is in the valley and I live up on top of the valley, good thing.
MTA
One question, how did they know to put the Road Closed sign up before it flooded?
It reminds me of the October 2000 floods when I lived in Uckfield, East Sussex. Luckily we lived further up the hill
johnreid
MTA wrote:
One question, how did they know to put the Road Closed sign up before it flooded?
It reminds me of the October 2000 floods when I lived in Uckfield, East Sussex. Luckily we lived further up the hill
THe signs are hinged so that they do not say tat when the water is low. Once it starts to rise the Highway department opens the signs up. You can see there is a seam in the middle.
MTA
Now that is clever!
James
As if you'd drive through the bugger though
Minor1PJG
Highway Dept.?? Should be the River Authority
johnreid
That is Laughrey Creek, upstream from Friendship is Versailles, the covered bridge there is normally about 30 feet above the creek, but here it is this morning
Minor1PJG
That's wet alright
Kritika
Wow John thats amazing
Mamodman123
Minor1PJG wrote:
That's wet alright
Slightly damp!
mogogear
Glad you OK John- My thoughts to your neighbors in need!!
johnreid
So far no requests have been made for shelter, I will probably be involved in some sort of way if that need arises.
Nick
John, we are lucky here, our snow has been slowly melting, so some water in the ditches, but no flooding.
johnreid
We now have about 1/2 inch of snow on the ground! What a strange day for weather.
Nick
It has snowed the last two nights, but is melted by 10:00 am.
It was 40 degrees F today and I took a few pics, should I post them in here to compare with yours?
johnreid
Sure
Nick
I posted them in the spring thread.
Mister Occlusion
That creek reminds me of the La Salle "river" that meanders through my sector of responsibility at work. It can be a stagnant creek in the summer, sitting in its incised little valley, only having water in it at all because of the numerous weirs along it. In the spring it will rapidly rise and flood any bridge that isn't built above the valley walls.
And the Morris river as well. It can go from being a trickle in the summer, probably also a good 30 feet or more below the main highway bridge, right up to where it laps at the base of the bridge. I drove over it a few times in that state and then over top of the mud dike that they were raising on the highway to close the town's ring dike.
During the flood of 97 (google manitoba flood 1997 and I'm sure you'll find good pics) that bridge was under almost 2 metres of water at one point. But that's when the Red River becomes a lake, flooding thousands of square kms of this dead flat paleo lacustrine basin that covers the entire centre of the province from the US border to the interlake region (lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba are remnants of this once huge glacial lake).
