Farm Flooding at Rising Rainbow Arabians

I've posted about flooding here before even earlier this winter in
but this time there's much more water on the ground than we've ever seen since we lived here.

I apologize for the darkness of this photo. I'm still figuring out this camera and didn't adjust for the trees on the opposite side of the creek bank. However, this picture is the only one I have that gives any hint of the depth of this mess. See that white water in the middle? That is my little twelve foot long bridge that normally crosses this creek. Usually there is about 18 inches from the top of the water to the bottom of the bridge. Currently there is at least a foot of water over the top of my bridge which fortunately is wedged in place by a tree stump and that brush on what is supposed to be the opposite side of the creek.



This picture is just beyond that bridge and shows the area where dear sweet Suede crawled on his belly through the creek bed to get in with the mares. A Day in the Life of an Arabian Breeder - Coping As you can see there no longer is room for Suede, not only that the creek is now running underneath six spans of fence in this location instead of the normal one. Those are eight foot between fence posts just in case you're wondering how wide This thing is. My little creek is at the moment..............more like a raging river.




Our property is mapped in a 100 year flood zone. We didn't know that until after we bought. Being our first farm/country property we were not educated about wetlands and flood planes. Since moving here we've had to learn our lessons the hard way including dealing with a couple of low spots that just happen to have barns on top.

However, none of our buildings including our house are in that one hundred year flood plane, even though we deal with high water, it's more a cause of the wetlands and low spots than the actual seasonal creek that runs through our place.

This picture shows the run of that flood plain down across the neighbor's property. As you can see this area of that flood plan is ALL flooded. The entire area to the right up to the road on our property is part of that plane too. Currently about 2/3 of that is flooded. The only areas not flooded are the high shots.




This is the view of the back of the barn where Legs lives with five mares and two colts. You can see the rising creek in relationship to the back of the barn. With another seventeen hours before crest it will be interesting to see how close the creek actually comes.



This last picture is the edge of the encroaching water from the one hundred year flood plane that is off to the side of my house. While the whole area isn't filled in yet, this edge is about twenty maybe thirty feet from my home.

The county I live in is the worst hit by this flood. In other areas they are saying it is not as bad as other years. But certainly here on my place we will hit that one hundred year flood plane before these waters reside. It's entirely possible that we will exceed it.

We're thinking that we and all our animals are safe but a few prayers wouldn't hurt. This is the most threatened I've felt about the flooding here.



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