Hope all of our friends in AR aren't having to tread water. I would assume Faulkner is busier that a one legged man in any kind of kicking contest. Hoping for the best possible outcome.
Arkansas flooding
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For sure. I saw reports of up to 12 inches. My son lives in Branson MO, got 8+ inches in less than 3 hours. He lives in a high part of the area but some flooding and washed out roads.
Wow, wasn't aware of that much rain. Hope all are safe.
Fortunately it all passed West of here and missed central Arkansas. The rainfall totals being reported are simply beyond belief. 12-15 inches in a few hours. I frankly did not know it was possible within the laws of nature for it to rain that much that quickly.
The one good thing has been it has broken the unbelievable heat streak of plus 110 degrees for days on end. Me and my hound are actually enjoying a drink out by my Koi pond. (Hound is drinking pond water, me some “bat medicine*”).
*see earlier post about a bat in my bedroom. To borrow from WC Fields, I carry bourbon to calm my nerves when I see a bat. And I always carry a small bat!
The one good thing has been it has broken the unbelievable heat streak of plus 110 degrees for days on end. Me and my hound are actually enjoying a drink out by my Koi pond. (Hound is drinking pond water, me some “bat medicine*”).
*see earlier post about a bat in my bedroom. To borrow from WC Fields, I carry bourbon to calm my nerves when I see a bat. And I always carry a small bat!
We duck hunted one year outside a town called Lonoke east of Little Rock. I have to admit we got some rain, not a lot and their small green tree backwater started to flood. You could tell the water rose in the blind in the rice fields we were in.
Our host said that if you took a long leak in the river, it would flood since it is so flat around the area. Can't imagine a foot of rain in a matter of hours.
Our host said that if you took a long leak in the river, it would flood since it is so flat around the area. Can't imagine a foot of rain in a matter of hours.
Faulkner
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Man, it was crazy around here for a couple of days. We received reports of rainfall totals from 4 inches overnight in the southern parts of the county to isolated reports of 10 to 12 inches in the northern reaches. A foot of rain in just a few short hours is going to cause some havoc no matter where you are.
I was up taking calls to help stranded motorist before daylight. A friend of mine texted me a couple of pictures of me going car to car in my vehicle picking up people whose cars had flooded out when they got hit with a wave of water washing through one of our small towns. All in all I hauled out 16 people who I picked up and took to higher ground.
We actually had a two phases of the flooding. 1) was the flash flooding of the water that could not run off fast enough to keep up with the heavy rainfall. 2) The second phase was when the water drained off into our creeks and streams that had not completely drained from Hurricane Beryl just a week earlier. These creeks and streams quickly overfilled their banks later in the day after the rain had stopped. It was a mess.
The sheriff's office working with the county road department have been covering all the county roads looking for state highway and county road damage and have identified quite a few total road washouts that are having to be repaired.
I was up taking calls to help stranded motorist before daylight. A friend of mine texted me a couple of pictures of me going car to car in my vehicle picking up people whose cars had flooded out when they got hit with a wave of water washing through one of our small towns. All in all I hauled out 16 people who I picked up and took to higher ground.
We actually had a two phases of the flooding. 1) was the flash flooding of the water that could not run off fast enough to keep up with the heavy rainfall. 2) The second phase was when the water drained off into our creeks and streams that had not completely drained from Hurricane Beryl just a week earlier. These creeks and streams quickly overfilled their banks later in the day after the rain had stopped. It was a mess.
The sheriff's office working with the county road department have been covering all the county roads looking for state highway and county road damage and have identified quite a few total road washouts that are having to be repaired.
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Puller
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I saw a report on one of the Memphis TV news channels that one town in northern Arkansas reported 16 inches of rain overnight. That is a lot of water in a short period of time than has to go somewhere.
