Maybe Spring isn't here after all
A few days ago I wrote a really nice post then as I was getting ready to publish it tBlog ate it... honest it did!
So I will try a lame attempt to recreate it, except I have one small issue. In the post that got eaten I was sure Spring was finally here. On Tuesday, March 13th the temperature went up to 65 degrees, it was clear and sunny and just beautiful outside. Another one of the cows had a calf last week, and a baby goat was born on Wednesday, the chickens are starting to lay eggs again. And even though it was cloudy and dreary outside it was warm, 54 degrees, so I was starting to be convinced that spring is here. I guess jinx things by thinking like that.
Wednesday night we had rain and thunder storms all night, and by 5:30 a.m. Thursday there were roadways in the area that were under water so they had to be closed. By 7:30 a.m. the rain changed to sleet, then by 9 a.m. the sleep changed to snow. The water did not stop raising until about 6 p.m. By then there was one way into and out of our town, all the main and most of the secondary roads had been closed off completely. Most of the towns in the area were like this.
The water came right up to the end and back of the barn but didn't get in the barn. This is the closest it has come to the barn in the 7 years I've lived here.
By yesterday morning the water level had gone down about a foot from the night before, thank God. We got about 8 to 10 inches of snow during the day and another 4 to 5 inches overnight. Thankfully the temperature has dropped down (17 degrees this morning), so that it has stopped the water from rising, but by the middle of the week the temps are to be back up so we will probably get flooding all over again.
