Our flooded backyard...

Hello Folks,

Here's a couple of pics I took yesterday. I'm surprised a flock of Canadian Geese or Mallard Ducks didn't decend into our backyard...LOL

This message was edited Feb 12, 2011 7:54 PM

the other pic...

Hi Susan,
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one adding Flood Pictures to this site.
Is yours a flooding creek or property inundation ?
I have a creek running through my property.
And the water went 3 ft over our Bridge.

Ginger, NOTHING can compare to the flooding that Austrailia has had to suffer!! Just crazy!! It's all over the US media. This is going to be a bad flood year for the US because of so much snow, but the stuff you Aussies are going through is horrendous!

Ginger,
I agree with Drum...I'm not trying to compare the suffering of those in Australia to what we have in our backyard. Our flooding is due to fast melting snow and the ground has yet to absorb it due to it still being frozen :)





This message was edited Feb 12, 2011 9:19 PM

Fifty two houses out of the sixty in these two streets had more than four foot of water through them some had more.
Every one of these houses was built after our 1974 flood and that was one meter higher.

Tsk, tsk, you'd think they'd learn not to build new houses in places known to flood!

Yeah, builders are just as bad at this in Britain!!

Resin

SusanLouise, do you think you'll be trying to even out the back yard come Spring, or is this an unusual new "pond"? Or, hey, make it into a real pond!

So sorry about the flooding. I did the Katrina thing in New Orleans. We were fortunate that our home in N.O. didn't flood, but the long term ramifications for the community have been profound. Unfortunately, the community had built floodwalls for exactly this scenario, but the federal construction was sloppy, at best, and failed under the stress of Katrina.

These pictures clearly show that Mother Nature always bats last. And every flood seems to be worse than the one before -- Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike, and now the Australia floods. Goodness.

Carla