Sigh, we're under a flood advisory, big surprise..

[Chrisnstar]

Here's the National Weather SErvice forecast for our area....

the Marais Des Cygnes River (River of Swans) is the one that goes through our area...one of it's tributaries, Bull Creek, is what is dammed up to make the lake where I ride so much... I'm sure Bull Creek is near flood stage...

IN KANSAS...

JOHNSON...LEAVENWORTH...LINN...MIAMI AND WYANDOTTE.


A LARGE SHIELD OF RAIN WILL SPREAD FROM EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST
CENTRAL MISSOURI INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING. THE RAIN WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AND MOST OF TOMORROW. THE HEAVIEST
RAINFALL
IS LIKELY TO OCCUR TONIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE HALF AND
THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS LATE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

WITH THE VERY WET GROUND ACROSS AREAS FROM EAST CENTRAL KANSAS INTO
CENTRAL MISSOURI...AREA RIVERS ARE ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND THIS
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME RIVERS TO GO INTO FLOOD. RIVERS
THAT ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN WILL BE THE STRANGER CREEK AT
EASTON...THE FISHING RIVER...CROOKED RIVER...WAKENDA CREEK....SOUTH
GRAND RIVER...BIG CREEK...BLACKWATER CREEK...PETITE SALINE CREEK...
LAMINE RIVER...MONITEAU CREEK AND THE MARAIS DES CYGNES.

PERSONS WITH INTERESTS ALONG RIVERS AND CREEKS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE
ADVISED TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TODAY IN CASE RIVERS DO BEGIN TO FLOOD BY
SUNDAY.

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN OR NEAR THE WATCH
AREA...BUT IS NOT IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA...CHECK YOUR
PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS...ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE INTERESTS ALONG
AREA RIVERS. KEEP INFORMED...AND BE READY FOR ACTION IF FLOODING IS
OBSERVED OR IF A FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED.

John and I just came in from our evening check of the horses... we practically had to swim out to them!

chris

[Kit]

yikes! Floods are never good.
Hopefully it won't be as bad as they are predicting.

[Chrisnstar]

Have you ever read the Ken Kesey novel, "Sometimes a Great Notion?" It's about the Pacific northwest and I remember there was constant rain in the story... this reminds me of that!

or that Morgan Freeman-Minnie Driver movie, "A Hard Rain."


chris

[Kit]

Haven't read it, but rainy PNW is so true. There have been many times where we go by how many days it rains in a row. A couple winters ago, we were up to 70+ days of rain.
People here don't tan, we rust. ;D
Our unofficial state animal is the slug.
Seattle has a festival for umbrellas, called Bumbershoot
It's been said that if you live here long enough, your feet grow webs. I'm not telling if that's true or not. ;D

[Mary Ann]

Oh man, I would be so depressed. I like the spring shower, or the summer thunderstorm, the ones that do their thing and get the heck out of there. Rain one hour, blue skies the next. The days that drone on and on and on would make me crazy.

I'm going out in just a bit to bring horses in for the day. (And the night, and the day tomorrow....) We have rain coming too, your leftovers. I'm hoping it's not so severe as what you've gotten.

[Chrisnstar]

Well, now it's been upgraded to a flood warning.... and there's more rain coming tonight and Tuesday...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR THE...

...MARAIS DES CYGNES NEAR OSAWATOMIE...LA CYGNE

...FOR THE MARAIS DES CYGNES AT OSAWATOMIE...THE LATEST STAGE IS 18.5
FEET AT 6 AM SUNDAY. FLOOD STAGE IS 28.0 FEET. MINOR FLOODING IS
FORECAST...WITH A MAXIMUM STAGE OF 28.5 FEET EXPECTED EARLY TUESDAY
MORNING. AT 28.0 FEET...LOW-LYING AREAS ALONG THE RIVER BEGIN TO
FLOOD.

...FOR THE MARAIS DES CYGNES AT LA CYGNE...THE LATEST STAGE IS 13.9
FEET AT 7 AM SUNDAY. FLOOD STAGE IS 25.0 FEET. MINOR FLOODING IS
FORECAST...WITH A MAXIMUM STAGE OF 26.0 FEET EXPECTED EARLY TUESDAY
AFTERNOON. AT 25.0 FEET...LOW-LYING FARMLAND AND OTHER RURAL LAND
FLOODS.

LATEST
LOCATION FS STAGE DAY/TIME FORECAST

MARAIS DES CYGNES
OSAWATOMIE 28 18.5 SUN 06 AM 28.5 EARLY TUE MORNING
LA CYGNE 25 13.9 SUN 07 AM 26.0 EARLY TUE AFTERNOON

DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOWING WATER. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD
FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY
CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. TWO FEET OF WATER WILL
CARRY MOST VEHICLES AWAY.

sigh...... blub, blub, blub...

chris

[Mary Ann]

Geez, Chris! That's starting to sound pretty scary!

[Chrisnstar]

fortunately, we're several miles from the river, but unfortunately, we can't get ANYWHERE from here without crossing several tributaries which also are plum full.

chris