Yamaguy55
No difficult problems, just difficult people
Yesterday was the first in a while were it wasn't raining, thinking abut raining, or raining. I decided to see how things were, as the morning had many roads closed due to flooding, houses pumping their basements, and similar. The creek right down the road from our house had overflowed the pavement by about a foot in the morning, but by afternoon, had receded enough to allow some exploring.
I figured the best way around was to use the WRR, so took a lap around the general area to see what was going on. Just to the south of where I live, are several small river towns along PA147, so that's the way I went. Herndon's ball field was very underwater, as was the lane along the river. Normally, the ball field is well above any water, you can see the Norfolk Southern tracks and embankment in the background. There was probably four to five feet of water on the field. The road past the riverfront homes was almost under itself, and everyone's sump pumps were running full attempting to rid the houses' basements of water. I live about fifteen miles from there, and inland a bit. Our property is so wet it is like a marsh, and even today, over thirty hours since the heaviest rain stopped, I still need rubber boots to go anywhere in the yard. Our basement has never leaked since we got here, but it did this series of storms.
After I left the river, I went inland to some of the stone and dirt roads I frequent. One is a road accessing the Boy Scout camp, and the stream on the north end of this road has one of those corrugated steel culverts about six feet in diameter. The water not only stripped the soil and rock covering it off, but took away the asphalt on top as well. So the few houses that are on the wrong side of that bridge now have to drive all the way around through the woods, where it is a mud track of a road to get home. I rode it, and I'm glad I had a dirt bike with good knobbies. You wouldn't be able to get in there with a car. I hadn't planned to go mud bogging, but by the time I returned home, I had to wash the bike; it was no longer blue, but brown.
We'll dry out, and because of the hills, valleys and mountains, the tornados we did get weren't very strong or long lasting. Pretty tough April so far, can't say I'm sorry to see it go. The bright side is I have no concerns of the well going dry! My prayers go out to all of those that have had a worse go of it than we did. This was inconvenient and annoying, but we still have homes to go to, and the power stayed on for the most part. Although I don't know why: it blew so hard that it drove the rain under the front door, and soaked the carpet. The whole house shook form the wind. It is usually very windy here, but even worse than usual this past week. Why I still have all of the shingles and siding is a mystery to me.
I've linked my photobucket page rather than reducing the size of the photos, with descriptions:
http://s1178.photobucket.com/albums/x372/Yamaguy55/Rain%20and%20rain/
Other albums there as well for the bored.
I figured the best way around was to use the WRR, so took a lap around the general area to see what was going on. Just to the south of where I live, are several small river towns along PA147, so that's the way I went. Herndon's ball field was very underwater, as was the lane along the river. Normally, the ball field is well above any water, you can see the Norfolk Southern tracks and embankment in the background. There was probably four to five feet of water on the field. The road past the riverfront homes was almost under itself, and everyone's sump pumps were running full attempting to rid the houses' basements of water. I live about fifteen miles from there, and inland a bit. Our property is so wet it is like a marsh, and even today, over thirty hours since the heaviest rain stopped, I still need rubber boots to go anywhere in the yard. Our basement has never leaked since we got here, but it did this series of storms.
After I left the river, I went inland to some of the stone and dirt roads I frequent. One is a road accessing the Boy Scout camp, and the stream on the north end of this road has one of those corrugated steel culverts about six feet in diameter. The water not only stripped the soil and rock covering it off, but took away the asphalt on top as well. So the few houses that are on the wrong side of that bridge now have to drive all the way around through the woods, where it is a mud track of a road to get home. I rode it, and I'm glad I had a dirt bike with good knobbies. You wouldn't be able to get in there with a car. I hadn't planned to go mud bogging, but by the time I returned home, I had to wash the bike; it was no longer blue, but brown.
We'll dry out, and because of the hills, valleys and mountains, the tornados we did get weren't very strong or long lasting. Pretty tough April so far, can't say I'm sorry to see it go. The bright side is I have no concerns of the well going dry! My prayers go out to all of those that have had a worse go of it than we did. This was inconvenient and annoying, but we still have homes to go to, and the power stayed on for the most part. Although I don't know why: it blew so hard that it drove the rain under the front door, and soaked the carpet. The whole house shook form the wind. It is usually very windy here, but even worse than usual this past week. Why I still have all of the shingles and siding is a mystery to me.
I've linked my photobucket page rather than reducing the size of the photos, with descriptions:
http://s1178.photobucket.com/albums/x372/Yamaguy55/Rain%20and%20rain/
Other albums there as well for the bored.
