Rain Rain Go Away

Took this picture and video, click link below, of Sinking Creek in Afton this past Saturday afternoon -

This creek runs parallel to Ripley Island Road and is usually a slow running and winding stream. However, with all the heavy rains we been having, this creek came alive, and overflowed its banks and washed out and over the roads in several spots!

Click link below -

Roaring Sinking Creek

The Nolichucky river was roaring too and running super high -

This is an interesting pic below. It looks like the field of corn is now in the river, the water had risen so high -

Fortunately, it seems the water levels receded fairly quickly once the rains stop but it’s left behind quite a bit of damage once you get off the beaten path.

Jiminy Crickets!

What in the Sam Hill and tarnation is going on here in East Tennessee?!

It’s a coming a gully washer with all these sudden torrential downpours! There’s enough rain to wash out ditches and flood fields I tell yeah!

Some of this rain is like a cow peeing on a flat rock! Just incredibly hard and a bouncing rain all over the place!

Somes even like the Devil is beating his wife, with pouring rain and the sun a shinning!

Golly! I recon this is normal round these here parts of East Tennessee…

I do NOT care for it, any of it! 

Enough All Ready!

With all this foolish heavy rain we’ve been having, our pond has breached the top and now running overtop of the driveway -

We had the grade level of the driver’s raised in that area of the pond specifically because it seemed to always be “wet”. It was raised quite a bit, so very surprised to see it breaching.

It’s ironic because not too long ago, before all this rain, when it was dry, the pond level dropped quite a bit! It was super low. One neighbor said it’s gone dry in the past. Well that’s not an issue today.

Sunday Blues

Yup, it just passed over us, wetting everything and actually still raining -

It was a bit ominous, as you could see it coming -

Headed towards JC, so much for croquet…

A Deluge I Tell Ya!

We got a bit of rain yesterday afternoon, geesh -

The skies opened and it poured! Kinda came out of nowhere too.

However, as you can see, the water is draining off Pritchard and running down our easement in a torrent! 

There used to be a trench that ran parallel along the right side of the easement but it’s long gone. We’ll be mulling this issue over and giving some serious thought to having a new trench dug to manage and control all this water, when it come and to minimize the erosion.

June Hail

It poured here this past Friday, some long overdue and welcomed rain.

At one point, it started to hail and was coming down at a pretty good clip, see attached -