So, it has rained for forty days and forty... no, wait, just four days and nights, but that is enough. This is "high desert" country. We get about an inch too much rain to be an actual dessert, but it is plenty dry. Except when it ain't...
All photos taken with my Galaxy LunaPro cell phone
Goodbye, Gravel Road!
We have our own little watershed here on the mesa. The snow is gone from our drainage. All this rain is bringing the snow melt into the rivers and they are flooding too, but that has no effect on us. The mountains are not melting into THESE creeks, this is strictly rainfall.
Culvert just can't keep up with what is falling right now.
That is the last culvert on public roads, but just around the corner more trouble is brewing. So little water normally falls on this section that there is not really any ditch on the high side of the road. There is one last culvert right at the edge of our property that takes any last rivulets and directs them under the road at the lowest point, right where it becomes private road. The high side just started pouring over top of the whole section, and that entire section of road is trying to pretend it is a creek now.
Swim for the island in the middle!
It is hard to get a photo to really show the damage being done. I can sit and watch the road wash away, and while it would be easy to say it is "little by little" this is a dead end, country road, there is not much here. Little by little will eat the whole thing away in pretty short order.
Now, my little flood is nothing compared to what a lot of folks are going through right now, but it is bad enough that I am going to be pretty busy the next few days. My poor cows have to doggie paddle to their feed trough, and that is very degrading for a cow...
It is supposed to be a pasture with a creek through it not a creek with a pasture under it.
At any rate, this is likely to be my only post for a bit, I am certainly not going to get an open mic entry in this week. I do have a little musical talent to share with you though, brought to you by my piano tuner who bravely forded the rising waters to tune my baby yesterday!
In answer to REO Speedwagon: You are right, you can't tune a fish, but you can tune her piano and that helps. 🤣
NAMASTE!