The other day, I left the house for 3 hours...... The rain began about an hour after I left. This is what I found when I came home!
We have a small "creek" at the side of our house. It usually runs from Spring until the end of May or early June every year. Because we live about half way up a hill, and the creek originates at the top of the hill, the creek "swells" with a heavy thaw or a heavy rain. But..... THIS IS RIDICULOUS! Imagine that what you're seeing from this angle is USUALLY a dry creekbed..... and it's 8 or 9 feet BELOW what you're seeing in the picture. Yup! There's at least 8 feet of water DEEP! At the top of the picture is Crossover Road. There's a culvert that passes under the roadway to the other side, and that culvert is big enough for a man to walk through without "bending." The problem is that "something" is blocking the entrance of the culvert, and whatever it is, and however big it is, there's nooooooo water going through it. The creek just kept rising, and rising, and rising, and finally spilled over the road!
This picture is taken from the top of my driveway down toward the street. Er.... my new pond! There's a foot of "Yucky" water there.....
Yep! Those are ducks on my new pond! lol Mr and Mrs Ducky have come to "roost." He's a beauty..... I'll bet he weighs over 10 lbs, and he must have flown in from Webster Pond, because he's as tame as can be. I can walk right up to both of them, and feed them! Kool, huh?
The force of the water running over the street actually moved a snowbank!
"Rubber Ducky..... you're the one......"
The neighborhood kids have been feeding them! When the water receeds, there will be cracked corn all over the road! Bet there's a song in there, somewhere.......
Meanwhile..... it's been very quiet around here! No thru traffic since the Town put up the baricades....lol!
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