Week Of Rain

It is getting very mucky out there and it is going to get much more mucky before this storm system scours out of our area. We did have a low water year last year, not drought conditions as such, but we are looking at issues arising if we don’t get more rain this year. This week of wet weather is sure to bring the rainfall totals up but getting all that rain in a short span of a week is not only very messy, it also does damage as the large amounts of water along with gravity changes landscapes.

We are again checking all the water bars across the dirt logging roads that filter water away from the surface and into culverts to keep the damaging sluicing grooves the rapid plumes can dig. Several times I day, I shovel the trench around the show barn  that gets filled with liquefied mud and muck that settles and plugs the outlet for rain water to go around instead of through the barn (I haven’t been able to be successful at my endeavor 100% of the time, and I do have standing water in the lounging area again). We have had to re-open the culvert under the road that leads to the bridge, just like in December, over the river to keep the water flowing under rather than over the road, but there is too much water for the six inch culvert to keep up with the overflow from the swamp on the other side of the county road.

Good thing we have the barn open across the river for the three mother cows with their babies so they can come and go as the weather allows, the respite from the rain will give the caves time to rest and get dry before venturing out into the rain. The main herd has the large, dense fir trees on the hillside to find a break from the weather.

The river is currently running the full span of the bridge with six more days of wet weather expected. Although this amount of rain puts this area in flood stage, the river is still mostly contained inside it’s banks with only a little low level or riparian area flooding. We will be monitoring conditions as the rain continues to come down and until this storm system passes, we will be wearing our full body rain gear while doing anything outdoors.

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