to see this site lately~~~~
those 7 days of rain that I find myself referring to again and again contributed to this rarity....normally this time of year, we'd see four of these tractors in a row down our road....now, they go past one at a time.
The rains started during the early hours of Monday......the farmers knew it was coming so they were rushing to get the taters harvested...
Twenty inches of rain thwarted the efforts of too many of them though......these next photos are the field above after two days on non stop rain (Wednesday morning about 7 a.m.)....
By Wednesday afternoon, no green showed in that field at all...it was completely underwater....not even Hurricane Francis in 2004 or Fay's stalling over us this past fall caused so much standing water....the field on the other side of our property began to fill by Tuesday evening....
And the ditches were filled for miles.....
This ditch is about 3.5 feet deep.....and the water rose a few more inches by Thursday morning....causing us to fear that the footbridge would float away....
it didn't.
Besides the potato casualties, there were livestock issues as well.....
This little chick, about 7 days old when the storm began, had 11 siblings......7 of them died in the storm.
On Wednesday afternoon, we brought that chick and her four remaining siblings, along with Mama, home to live with us.....more photos to come~~
those 7 days of rain that I find myself referring to again and again contributed to this rarity....normally this time of year, we'd see four of these tractors in a row down our road....now, they go past one at a time.
The rains started during the early hours of Monday......the farmers knew it was coming so they were rushing to get the taters harvested...
Twenty inches of rain thwarted the efforts of too many of them though......these next photos are the field above after two days on non stop rain (Wednesday morning about 7 a.m.)....
By Wednesday afternoon, no green showed in that field at all...it was completely underwater....not even Hurricane Francis in 2004 or Fay's stalling over us this past fall caused so much standing water....the field on the other side of our property began to fill by Tuesday evening....
And the ditches were filled for miles.....
This ditch is about 3.5 feet deep.....and the water rose a few more inches by Thursday morning....causing us to fear that the footbridge would float away....
it didn't.
Besides the potato casualties, there were livestock issues as well.....
This little chick, about 7 days old when the storm began, had 11 siblings......7 of them died in the storm.
On Wednesday afternoon, we brought that chick and her four remaining siblings, along with Mama, home to live with us.....more photos to come~~
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