Oh Crap! Gotta Love Iowa....

AF Hunter · 07-08-2008, 09:07 AM

Got 8" of rain last night and have water running over the dams on all 5 ponds on the property. The big 7 acre pond has an emergency spillway and has a river running over it. Even with this spillway the water is within a foot of going over the top of the dam. The bedding area below the dam is completely underwater and it's a mess. I got a feeling I'll have to use one of those fishing rigs for my bow for deer hunting this fall if this keeps up. In the 10 months we've lived here: ice storm ending in 8 days without power (all electric house); 93 inches of snow when we average 20; 2 tornados; and now 8" of rain in one evening resulting in this.

I've whined now and feel so much better (yeah, right). Got to get back to pumping water out of the basement.

Y'all have a wonderful day.

P.S. The rain that hit here is now on it's way to St Louis and I personally sent it there because I was taught to share. lol

kickin_buck · 07-08-2008, 09:10 AM

You really could have kept it AF Hunter, we really don't need it down here...lol.

Rory/MO · 07-08-2008, 09:13 AM

it just hit here lol, it was raining VERY hard

mobow · 07-08-2008, 09:16 AM

Oh quit yer belly achin.....at least it's not snow!

TG78 · 07-08-2008, 09:22 AM

You could send some my way, we are 5 inches behind for the year and only get 19 total.

hatchet jack · 07-08-2008, 09:23 AM

Glad to see your enjoying your retirement AF

Hatchet Jack

wis_bow_huntr · 07-08-2008, 09:27 AM

Just glad we got some rain in central wi it was way toooo dry here again.

Rob/PA Bowyer · 07-08-2008, 09:27 AM

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ORIGINAL: mobow

Oh quit yer belly achin.....at least it's not snow!

LOL Don, at it's still Iowa. Didn't someone once call it a big buck mecca?

NCRemington700 · 07-08-2008, 12:59 PM

Send some of that rain down south!! We need it bad!

AF Hunter · 07-08-2008, 02:52 PM

Well the wife and I went to the big city of Des Moines for a medical appointment. We were gone 4 1/2 hours and the pond is no longer running over the emergency spillway. But, it's been cloudy and humid all day so we could get another round tonight. When we left, we noticed that the rain had eroded all the dirt around the sweet corn and beans and now they are all laying on their sides with the roots exposed. Losing my peaches n cream sweet corn hurts! We have an annual ritual of taking a small grill to the garden and grilling sweet corn right off the stalk. Well, back to damage control...I gotta get all the carpet out of the basement.