Wednesday, May 16, 2007

April Showers..............


....bring May floods!!
The last few days of April and the first few days of May brought several inches of rain to our area. The moisture was a real blessing!! All the rivers in the area spilled over their banks in many places. There were hardly any fields along the rivers that weren't under water!
The road Dad takes to work every morning......you can't really see it, but just beyond the first bridge there is a second one, much smaller and a little lower, and the water crested only about a foot or so below it. Anymore rain and the bridge would've been underwater.

The river-bed in this picture is about 50 yards past the trees, so there were several hundred feet of field under water on both sides of the river.

The river-bed is just beyond that row of trees........as you can see the water rose a lot!!

Okay, so it was a little muddy!! :)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice rain might not be so dry later on. send some of it my way for Iraq. see ya soon, PVT Becker

Anonymous said...

Nice pictures, Elizabeth!

We got the invite to Noah's graduation yesterday, and it sounds like it will be so much fun! I am so glad we can come! I can't wait to see everyone!

Morgan said...

Wow! That is alot of water! Great pictures!

Anonymous said...

I forgot to say before: I especially like the last photo! Really good job, Elizabeth!

Iron sharpeneth iron......Prov. 27:17 said...

I have to tell you Bryant, I didn't take that last picture!!Esther took Silas on a walk the day we had most of the flooding and she took that last picture....isn't it great!?!? :)

Kristi said...

Wow, y'all did get a lot of rain!

~Kristi

~AliisaJoy~ said...

YIKES!!!! I guess you guys got a *little* bit of rain! We've been having beautiful weather here lately. The girls have gone swimming twice in the past week!

Miss you LOTS!!!!!

Anonymous said...

You are so honest, Elizabeth! :-)Esther did a great job on that one. Can't wait to see you!!!!!!!!

--aleks k. said...

WoW!! A lot of rain I guess