Saturday, January 16, 2010

river rising with the thaw...

at 10.30 it was still 3 degrees C and sleeting/raining and the river was full but within bounds and not too fast.

by 11.45, when we got back from getting shavings, it had noticeably risen

by 15.30 it had speeded up substantially, all sorts of interesting things were being swept downstream (entire trees, Gaynor saw a huge bit of ice with a bin on top!) and it had burst its banks...

we are, of course, keeping a very close eye on it and Gaynor is hoping not to get a call from the flood watch people....

and by that time it was 5 degrees C and thawing fast, very little snow left our way, i saw some people riding (we'd spent the afternoon digging out the beds and grooming, as they hadn't been groomed for a while!)

we think we need to do some lunging before we start riding again!

5 comments:

trudi said...

Good to have Molly news back, hope the water level keeps down.

cptrayes said...

Yeah, snow goes, floods arrive!

C

Jean said...

Oh my, what next? I hope you all stay dry. The trouble with snow melt is that it often comes from far away to fill up the streams and rivers, so it's hard to gauge how much it's going to affect you downstream.

Danni said...

Stay safe, hope the water recedes very soon!

Di said...

Hope you don't get flooded. Riding? whazzat??