We have been having extremely wet weather within the last month: Rain, rain, and more rain.
We live on the Wild Rice River in the very south-eastern part of ND; our place is on a loop of the river, which is rising rapidly. I have been watching the water fluctuate the last few weeks, but it never struck me at how high it was getting until I saw sandbags, shovels, and a pile of sand in GB, on my way home from music lessons.
In just a few hours the water has risen many feet (in distance, not depth). It is right up to the chicken coop and I think we will need to evacuate the poor poultry to a drier place. The horses are loosing more of their pasture also.
Dad is down to Tewaukon Dam to see if the people there will hold up some of the water. The people there seem more concerned with wildlife drowning, than the farms down river; our neighbors are quite upset. More rain in the forecast: we’ll see what happens.
A bright note about all the rain: Great reading time!
~R
We live on the Wild Rice River in the very south-eastern part of ND; our place is on a loop of the river, which is rising rapidly. I have been watching the water fluctuate the last few weeks, but it never struck me at how high it was getting until I saw sandbags, shovels, and a pile of sand in GB, on my way home from music lessons.
In just a few hours the water has risen many feet (in distance, not depth). It is right up to the chicken coop and I think we will need to evacuate the poor poultry to a drier place. The horses are loosing more of their pasture also.
Dad is down to Tewaukon Dam to see if the people there will hold up some of the water. The people there seem more concerned with wildlife drowning, than the farms down river; our neighbors are quite upset. More rain in the forecast: we’ll see what happens.
A bright note about all the rain: Great reading time!
~R
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