Soooooo...streamers?Here are photos posted on another Wisconsin FFF
PHOTOS: Flooding in Vernon, Monroe counties - WISC
The West Fork Sports Club in Avalanche this morning:
(Photo of E. Lorensen)
The CTH S bridge in Avalanche this morning.* Judging by the debris, water was over the bridge.*
(Photo of E. Lorensen)
Breached spillway
Did you see me sandbagging back in the 1990s Jeff? Mississippi 3-5 miles wide south of here. We are very efficient at hanging drywall in the Midwest.
Down to the studs if you don't want to live in a swamp house. I only had to do that once in my first house. My current house is 50ft above Mississippi flood stage. Everyone comments how terrible my lane must be in winter. Yeah I'm cool with walking up the lane 3 or 4 times a winter. Good for my heart and drywall is bad on my back. Flood damage is horrible. You can see from Silver's pics it's pure mud. The water leaves your house in a few days, the skanky mud stays until you remove it.
I'm sure it wasn't bad as I am about to make it sound, but it just seemed like the Mississippi spread as far as the eye could see, from the air. It was hard for the mind to grasp the scale, to look down out of the window and say to yourself, "That is a river."Did you see me sandbagging back in the 1990s Jeff? Mississippi 3-5 miles wide south of here. We are very efficient at hanging drywall in the Midwest.
Most creek property is a great for a fishing shack if you don't store anything too valuable. . Here most of it a foot or so deep, right up until it isn't. It will get you eventually if you live anywhere near it where it rains hard now and then.Wow!
Things aren't that bad here, just high enough to mess up silver and trout fishing so I whine. In 1978 I almost bought a home on a trout stream. I was trying to choose between two of them actually, one with a deck cantilevered right out over the Loyalsock Creek (that's a big one) and another with a few acres on Hogland's Run. During the time I was trying to decide we had a minor flooding incident so I visited both properties. The one on the Sock was threatened and the creek looked very scary and not much like an idyllic trout stream. The one on Hogland's Run was completely surrounded by muddy water............ I ended up with a little chicken farm on top a mountain in Hepburn Township
Sounds like you witnessed the 500 year flood of 93'. We can only hope it doesn't come back. Once it breaches flood stage it's insane in the lowlands of the Midwest. River fises a couple feet and it's 1/2 mile wider overnight. Managable in the true Driftless region. Head down south a few hundred miles towards St Louis and you can't even describe it. But you actually just did.
Yep, that was the one. I obviously knew about the flood before I flew over it, because it was all over the news, but when it's staggering from 35,000', it's hard getting your mind around it. Just trying to comprehend how many people and buildings were affected by the hundreds (thousands?) of square miles of flooded area was, well, incomprehensible.Sounds like you witnessed the 500 year flood of 93'. We can only hope it doesn't come back. Once it breaches flood stage it's insane in the lowlands of the Midwest. River fises a couple feet and it's 1/2 mile wider overnight. Managable in the true Driftless region. Head down south a few hundred miles towards St Louis and you can't even describe it. But you actually just did.
Good job getting us back on topic!