ray54 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Over the past 36ish hours we are nearing 61/2 inches of rain. Rain guage was blown over so we aren't too sure of the amount. The driveway looks like a river. Lots of tree-trash blocking the five foot culvert pipe. Now for the photographic evidence. Would help if I had none flood pictures to see the old concrete chunks on the lower side. First is the dammed up water on upper side, then the top of the debe over the pipe and then as the water is spread by the old concrete pieces. And my photographer had to include me feeding the last ditch transportation in the barn. In getting close to 70 years around here the first time it has come so the water was still running big in the day time. It being 10 years or so since the creek has been up good lots and lots of small wood to block the pipe. The last time we worked on the crossing put a lot ton to 4 ton rocks on the lower side and hopefully no under cutting of the pipe. Pray for the barn as 2 sheets of metal are off and I am to stove up to go up a latter anymore to put them back. Both on the bottom of the roof on the side away from the prevailing wind. But not the disaster the news will make everything out to be. It has to have been 6 to 8 times in my life the water has been over the road, so not a climate change "thing" just mother nature give you a kick in the behind to say I RUN THINGS. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Be careful out there ray! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeper61 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Ray I hope it lets up soon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Has it been dry in your area before all this? They are talking about it onthe local news here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 The creek from out on the road looking at my house and yard on the other side of creek . The same angle showing tracks of where I used tractor to pull some bigger wood out on Sat day. But look at the water just ozzing out of the ground in the for ground. The main creek is normally more like the little ditch coming in from the right side. This is my driveway and some old concrete pieces that came out of a oil pipe line pumping/warming station just a few miles away. Ugley by most gauges but very useful to spread and slow the water as it overflowes. In the earlier picture water is about to the top of the concrete, so a foot to about 2 foot deep. Then a up stream shot showing the silt to give a idea of how much deeper it had been. The gate we have been using to feed cows. Of course the mud is worst right at the gate. The next are just to see how the water is running as ground cannot hold much more for a few days. Just a bit of the brush in the one canyan the cow go off into to get out of the hard rain. The wind and rain nock a lot of Spainish moss off the oak trees and the cows think it is a treat. So have not seen a cow for 2 days as they have a good bit of country up and off to the right. After a little guessing had about 7.5 inches of rain in 36 hours . Had most of another inch durning the day today. We will see what tonight brings. The wonderful weather guessers where pointing out this has not broken the drought yet. By my standards we have. Our rainy season is Oct to April. My aveage is 20 inches, we are at about 25 inches so far. I have seen years that flood like this and then be done, which is not the best. But with this saturation a inch in a month to 6 weeks it could be pretty good put another inch at 8 weeks and about as good as we ever get. Climite change ............................. no it always comes with a twist of some kind Mother nature always wins. 😉 Unless it rains to night the new drought has started. We are always to wet or tro dry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Sorry for your troubles but I hope it makes your grass grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 Well compared to some people I am doing great. A mother on the way to school drove into a concrete slabe crossing on a creek just a bit bigger than what I showed. Car got washed off she got out and her 5 year old got sweep away from her and another that jumped into help her. The other end of county 2 women drove into a big puddle one drowned. Three rivers here that can be real rivers all have some dry "Arizona" type crossing. A number of cars drove into them and stalled but every one got out Ok. But I would guess the cars all done, between sand and water in the electrical. Just because you have never seen water run in the river and you crossed it yesterday. 😵 One of the things you don't want to learn for yourself. The water is right up to the bridges in the more populated areas. Was looking at facebook lots of vidio of how much water there is flowing in our near to desert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 4 hours ago, ray54 said: Well compared to some people I am doing great. A mother on the way to school drove into a concrete slabe crossing on a creek just a bit bigger than what I showed. Car got washed off she got out and her 5 year old got sweep away from her and another that jumped into help her. The other end of county 2 women drove into a big puddle one drowned. Three rivers here that can be real rivers all have some dry "Arizona" type crossing. A number of cars drove into them and stalled but every one got out Ok. But I would guess the cars all done, between sand and water in the electrical. Just because you have never seen water run in the river and you crossed it yesterday. 😵 One of the things you don't want to learn for yourself. The water is right up to the bridges in the more populated areas. Was looking at facebook lots of vidio of how much water there is flowing in our near to desert. Tut tut Ray....oh you are so out of touch with reality...sigh.....thinking that the rain may have caused the flooding....I used to think like that also... but celebrities such as Greta Stormberg or whatever that creatures name is...plus the accumulated wisdom of our respective leaders .....and screaming school kids,....all in their unfailing endeavor to keep us ever vigilant ...and forever poor....in the battle of the ages....climate change.......have convinced me that the world indeed has lost the plot Considering most of our illustrious leaders....would possibly fail even to organize an exchange of body fluids in the local whore house...(the paper work, you know.....)..it is even more ludicrous to think that those bunch of two bit excrement kickers could have influence over the global climate.. Mike 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 Six miles down the road about 2 miles from as far as publics access goes a much bigger creek than mine has closed the road. Water some how got to flowing next to the culver pipes and cut a channel around them. I want to say 6, 10 foot or bigger pipes in a massive fill. About 20 to 30 foot of unsupported fill was holding the road up. With 2 pipe fully exposed. So with FEMA being here since disaster declaration from Washington DC, Friday it is full steam ahead. Working 24 hours a day to get access for about 400 homes a good part of which is vacation homes, and one lime stone quarry that sends out 20 to 60 truck loads a day. Since Friday morning non stop dump trucks of all kinds. Have not found any but facebook pictures of it and am smart enough to stay out of the way. But knowing the room they had to start with I cannot imagine how they get the trucks all turned around. But they hauled all night. If any of you are house bound and want look up it is, Franklin Creek wash out in San Luis Obispo county and Running Deer property owners trapped should find some news tidbits. This is after the Jan 9 rains. https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Department-News/2023/Chimney-Rock-Road-–-Collapsed-and-Rebuilt-by-Weeke.aspx As a disaster project the pipe were dug out and reset with all trucked in fill. I was told 6000 ton but don't know. We had another bigger than normal shot of rain on Mar 8 and 9. My place about 4.5 inches in 30 hours. With the topography the area this creek drain got 25-50% more than I did. https://pasoroblespress.com/news/culvert-at-chimney-rock-road-and-fawn-lane-washes-out/ This rain removed the new fill and the old rusted out pipes. So again all residents that live on the other side are trapped as this is the only road out. If they have boat they can put them in Nacimiento Lake and go to the main marina but that is maybe 10 miles. The LAND of FRUITS and NUTS--or is it land of FEAST OR FAMINE Weather is only near average one in ten years, is my guess. Why saying climate is changing is so hard for me to accepted. I have seen far more rain in my just short of 70 years. But most parts of the state are double the average. The road that washed away was built in 1956 to 58 as the damm for Nacimiento lake was built. Which is before I can remember. But guess it was just dry river slab, I will ask a few that are older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 With the latest round of rain it had my pipe running as full as it could take but did not over flow my driveway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Hope the weather straightens out for you Ray. Stay safe. Nothing more powerful and destructive as running water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobfly Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Are you going to be subject to the massive snowmelt to come Ray? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleman Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Reminds me the year the San Diego river came back to life and flooded the shopping mall that the idiots had built in the basin area. Mother Natures always wins! Good luck, Stay on the high ground and dry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int 504 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 On 1/10/2023 at 3:52 AM, mike newman said: Tut tut Ray....oh you are so out of touch with reality...sigh.....thinking that the rain may have caused the flooding....I used to think like that also... but celebrities such as Greta Stormberg or whatever that creatures name is...plus the accumulated wisdom of our respective leaders .....and screaming school kids,....all in their unfailing endeavor to keep us ever vigilant ...and forever poor....in the battle of the ages....climate change.......have convinced me that the world indeed has lost the plot Considering most of our illustrious leaders....would possibly fail even to organize an exchange of body fluids in the local whore house...(the paper work, you know.....)..it is even more ludicrous to think that those bunch of two bit excrement kickers could have influence over the global climate.. Mike The saying around here is could f-ck up a whore's picnic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray54 Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 No snow on the coastal side, just rain to be captured in reservoirs. Monterey county vegetable industry was thinking back in the 1950's. The county built at least 2 damms to hold 350,000 acre feet of water to add to the Salinas river the largest underground river in the world. Which made the Salinas Valley the salad bowl of the USA. And being in the Land of Fruits and Nuts the Salinas river flows north. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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