Friday, June 18, 2010

The rains came down and the floods came up

In the last three days we have had over 100 mm (or 4 inches) of rain. (Cardston had even more). This comes at the end of an extremely wet spring, where there was already standing water in many fields. Farmers have been unable to plant many of their crops and even those crops planted in many cases may be ruined because of the standing water. We have had almost no warm weather, and nothing hot and dry in the forecast. My own garden is not growing much at all, and I very much doubt I will get corn, tomatoes, peppers or even cucumbers this year.
I'd like to ask all the Pretes to begin praying for good weather for our reunion.
This is a low quality picture. It is of the Cook fields in Magrath where there are soccer fields and baseball diamonds.

This is our trailer parked in a lake at the storage place. The trailer was already in water before this rainstorm. The ground is so saturated that the water has no where to go. It would take a miracle for the water to be gone before our reunion. We only hope it will go down enough that we will be able to get the trailer out.
This is the school soccer field or lake MHS.

Our own property, thankfully, is raised up and drains off very nicely. In addition, we have a sump pump on our lower deck that redirects water straight into the town storm drains. This is the view from our side yard of our neighbor's shed which is under water.




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