The water is so weird here. I guess everywhere is different. In Louisiana, if it rained a lot, it would flood and take days to go down. I don’t remember it ever flooding in Kentucky. In our part of Texas, it rarely rained but every now and then, it would rain and in a couple of days, we might get 5″ of rain. There were a couple of places in town that would flood almost every time there was a high rain but for the most part, there was no flooding.
We don’t go out othat often (though more than I’d like) so I’m sure we miss it sometimes. I already mentioned that Chad said the road to our house was closed Saturday evening. Sunday morning, Vince said “Let’s drive down and look at it”. The water was gone with no evidence that it had been over the road except for some damage to the road and the barricades pulled to the side of the road. Lately, MDOT has been leaving the barricades on the side of the road because they’re apparently having to block that road so often.
After I got home from keeping that hilarious little boy (who I thought was 2 but he informed me he’s now 3), Vince wanted to run to town so we did.
None of this water is usually here. There’s a bridge ahead (that little rise in the road). I’ve never seen water in these fields, though a couple of times I’ve seen evidence that water had been there. We were in town maybe an hour. On the way home, I asked Vince if we needed to take a different route home in case the road was closed. From where we were, it wouldn’t be too far out of our way to come up a different road but Vince said he doubted the water was rising because it hadn’t rained since close to daylight.
We barely made it going this way. They were putting the barricades up but let us go through. We had to cross over into the other lane to get around the water after we crossed the bridge. If it doesn’t rain again, in a few hours the barricades will be down but it’s supposed to rain more tonight. MDOT is spending a lot of time putting up and removing barricades because I doubt this is the only place around here they’re having to do this.
Joanne says
I drove through St. Louis yesterday on my way home from a retreat at Stitchin’ Heaven and it absolutely poured down – with a lot of traffice. Lots of standing water everywhere. Trust me — I was glad to get out of Missouri!
Cody says
We had an area like that where I used to live. Every hard rain, sure enough, water across the road. Finally after over 20 years of this, the state finally put good drainage in and raised the level of the road. Before we moved I hadn’t seen it go across the road again. Maybe some day they will improve that area in the road too.
Judy Laquidara says
This is a road that is traveled a lot by locals but there are many alternate routes and I would imagine with budget cuts, it’s way down on the list of priorities. They did build a new, higher bridge just before we got here but I’m kinda not sure what the point of that was since as soon as it floods, everything except the bridge is under water. It’s not a big deal because other than going to Jeremy’s house, it’s just as close for us to go about three different ways . . it’s just interesting to see how quickly the water rises and recedes.
Cheryl says
Having grown up only a few miles northwest of you between Golden City and Lockwood (where all those hideous windmills are now?) I can tell you that this has been a problem there for as long as I can remember and I’m 66. I have pictures that my grandparents took where the creek just a half mile north of our home was halfway to our house and I know that still happens there as my cousins still post pictures during high water. We just always had detours in mind!
Judy Laquidara says
I suppose it has at least some amount to do with hills and valleys which we didn’t have in Louisiana and not so much in our part of Texas either. It just seems weird for me that the highway can open and close due to flooding three or four times in one day.
Joyce says
On the east side of Missouri, the Mississippi is flooding, but it’s only supposed to be up for a couple of days. There must have been a lot of rain to the north (of Missouri) for this amount of flooding.