A Gully-Washer
Here in Riley County, you can always count on the unpredictable. According to the weather dude on TV, there was a slight chance of rain yesterday. In actuality, at about 12:30pm, the rains started coming down in bucket-loads. It kept raining, and over the next three hours, we received right around 4.75″ of rain. I heard someone call this rain a frog strangler.
That’s a lot of water in a short period of time. As the Sunday School song says, “the rains came down and the floods came up.” I thought there might be a need to start building an ark.
My wife shot this picture looking out our front door. The water is running over the driveway. If you look closely, you can see the vortex of the water also going down and into the 24″ tube that runs under the driveway.
In other parts of the county, Wildcat Creek was out of it’s bank. It was up to levels that I hadn’t seen since 1993.
On a positive note, we have had enough moisture this spring to keep the hills green.
Continuing to enjoy Riley County…
- Dan