The rain started sometime early Friday morning, although I'm not sure what time, because even though I was awake, I was too lazy to check the time on my phone. It was a soft pleasant rain, and the sound of it dripping off the house onto the window air conditioner lulled me back to sleep.
When it was time to take Mo out to do his morning business, the rain had slowed to just a sprinkle, but about the time we went out, it started up again....he rushed to get back inside because while he loves to wade into the creek or lay down in a puddle, for some reason he doesn't like getting rained on!
It rained the rest of the morning, slow but steady. The ground was already getting pretty saturated by the time the heavier rain arrived at around 3 in the afternoon.
And when that rain arrived, it was a "gully washer!"
Within minutes, the alarm on the NOAA weather radio went off...our county was under a flash flood warning.
It didn't take long for the back yard and garden to go from just soggy wet to little lakes of water.
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| The garden, inundated with heavy rain. |
The cows all hurried up to the hackberry tree trying to get away from the driving rain.
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| Cows sheltering under a tree in the heavy rain. |
And it rained, and rained, and rained!
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| Walking rows in the garden. |
(I couldn't help but think that the walking rows in the garden were acting like swales, stopping the water from rushing down through the yard. That wasn't my intent when I built the raised rows, but I like that they have turned out that way.)
But by 4:30 pm, the rain had pretty much stopped and when the edge of the clouds moved off to the east, the sun came out and there was the most beautiful double rainbow!
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| The rainbow. |
We could tell from the house that the fields down by Dry Creek and the slough were underwater. My dad said we got 4" of rain, and because the ground was already very saturated, a lot of it just wasn't able to soak in. So this flooding was way worse that the last time.
RAF wanted to drive down to the creek to have a look, so once the rain had stopped, we drove down to have a look.
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| Flooded hay fields. |
I highly recommend you mute your video if you watch this...the audio is HORRIBLE!
So while our area had lots of rain and flooding, no one was hurt (so far as I know) or lost their home. Sadly, the same can't be said for others.
This same storm system brought flash flooding in Missiouri, where a car with six people was swept away when they tried to cross a flooded bridge. Two of the six didn't survive.
Twenty-six people lost their lives in Mississippi and Alabama in a massive tornado that devastated several small towns, virtually wiping them off the map.
Are storms getting worse in Dixie Alley? One might think so. As I sit here typing this, there is yet another severe weather outbreak happening in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with two active tornado warnings. Prayers that we don't see a repeat of what just happened two days ago.