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CrealCritter said:

It's so sad, those young ladies and others still unaccounted for, are in my prayers.

How can a river rise 26 feet in 45 minutes? That's just insane for a midwesterner to try and grasp. Was there a dam failure, or truly that much rainfall?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

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12+ inches of rain in a specific area, topography funneled all of that rain down that river. 1990 in Shadyside Ohio, a rain storm parked in a location and caused a flash flood killing 26.

The unfortunate thing is the rain is often mi
les and miles away upstream in the watershed and the victims have no clue of the rain. I have seen it visiting Colorado and locally here, but not to this extent.

CrealCritter said:

How can a river rise 26 feet in 45 minutes? That's just insane for a midwesterner to try and grasp. Was there a dam failure, or truly that much rainfall?

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arid landscapes and no flood controls. you can construct all the dams you'd like in such areas and they will help for a short period of time (the sediments build up behind the dams pretty quickly) but it takes green and growing things to build the capacity to absorb more rains as compared to bare dirt with mostly scrub on it.

even with a vibrant and green thick forest with feet of subsoil you still will have troubles with such massive amounts of rain in a small area.

a really good approach to helping things out would be to encourage beavers to return to such rivers as possible as they provide natural water management services and will spread and soak as much water into the ground as it can hold. at the cost of losing some river bottomlands that are currently being used for grazing or maybe not being used at all in the arid regions... there's always tradeoffs...

oh, and yes, beaver dams do get washed out by storms like these, but it is still some buffering and protection and eventually they will rebuild without charging us for it.

I was at the farm store yesterday. Paid for my extra bag of all purpose sand. The manager was understanding. Then on the way out I grabbed a pigs ear for tank, they are free if you bring your dog in. I asked for help loading for the first time in a long time. Only because I was whipped and sweating even inside the store.

So one of the young guys and I load up farm truck with feed and spring water. I go to grab tanks' pigs ear out of the basket of the flat cart and there are two pigs ears? The young guy had already grabbed my cart and was almost to the store when I came to my senses. Here I am sweat running down in my eye, its hotter than hell on that black top parking lot, with a extra pigs ear. What do I do?

Tank and I marched our butts back trough the parking lot and into the store. Tank was so happy to go to the farm store again, the farm store is his favorite store. I am not used to blacktop hell fire hot. We go in and I drop the pigs ear in the bin thats right inside the store and tank started barking at me. I said you hush now. You got a pigs ear in the truck, now it's time to go. Rule are rules, you only get one pigs ear per visit! People laughing at his antics, actually he was arguing with me, I was hot and sweaty I wasn't having any of his arguments.

Anyways we made it back to the farm with exactly what we paid for, and tank got his pigs ear. But I still would like to know how a extra pigs ear ended up in the basket?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

Maybe Tank grabbed one... thinking you forgot.

Mini Horses said:

Maybe Tank grabbed one... thinking you forgot.

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I wouldn't put it past him at all. He rides on top of the feed bags. So it's possible he could have grabbed one and dropped it in the basket when I wasn't paying attention.

Jesus is Lord and Christ