More Flood Pictures

My neighbor Randy, my dad, and I went out to get another look at the flooding at Noon. Much to our relief the waters were going down in Yucatan valley from earlier in the day. They had gotten higher when Randy went out mid-morning, so there was cause for worry.

Going up the road past the local Girl Scouts camp revealed that a lot of water had crossed over that road leaving debris behind. My father moved the smaller chunks out of the road after we stopped.

The South Branch of the Root River jumped its banks in many places wreaking havoc on fields and roads. The water in the photos above covers a field. Notice the trees, dead and alive, swept into the water to be left behind.

Eventually we couldn’t go any further because there still was a place where the water was over the road. There is no way anyone could ever drive through that, so don’t think you can just ram through flood waters. I’ll be posting video from this location a little later.

Damage to back roads is extensive. This is what happens when a culvert is blocked by debris and can’t allow the water through. H2O always finds a way so it carved through the roadbed exposing the metal culvert pipes.

As you can see from the above photo, the water was channeled along a relatively narrow path which added to its destructive force.

A lot of late planted corn and soy has been lost to the flood, turning a bad year worse for local farmers.

A campground near Spring Grove was hit by mud slides and flooding in the wee hours last night. Driving by we noticed what appeared to be a tent wedged in the trees. A closer look revealed it to be a plastic portapotty or storage shed swept away in the raging waters.

There is still a lot of standing water in the campground. Farmers aren’t the only ones suffering a financial blow from this.