Watery Wednesday

Last week, it looked like that, but now it looks more like this.

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The Flood Waters Are Receding

This field of grain took a lot of rain or wind damage. Honest, it is a flat field, and what looks like hills and valleys is the standing or fallen grain.

This was Friday evening, a couple of hours after the storm dumped two inches of rain on the area over the course of two hours. The paper said enough water made it into the Ottawa River to fill 70 Olympic swimming pools. This is the path we usually take to get to the path on the other side of the Carp River.

Saturday morning, the water was down enough that you could see the top of the storm drain about a third of the way across.

Sunday evening, we took the long way around, and watched the geese at the hill of the storm drain. That was where the turtles laid their eggs.

This morning, the water is only eight inches above normal, and you can see some of the rocks of the path, beside the joe pye weed.

Friday evening, these cattails, normally at the edge of the water, were stranded, far from shore.

Sunday evening

and this morning, they are looking more normal.

Friday morning, these chamomile flowers had been happily above water. I took the photo on Sunday evening. They saw air again yesterday.

Sunday morning damage on the tributary of the Carp River,

and this morning, a duck floats downstream.

In the next photo, the flattened vegetation shows how high the water was at the peak of the flooding in this deep valley.

Friday evening, the water in the ditch between the road and the Carp River was just above my knees when I waded across. Both of the dogs had to swim.

Today's photo shows more water than is usually in that ditch.

Here, the nameless tributary meets the Carp River on Friday

Sunday,

and this morning.

Looking east from the road, upstream along the tributary Friday

Sunday,

and today.

Flooding

Yesterday afternoon, we had more than 40 mm of rain in about two hours. I was at work, and missed the flooded streets, but these two photos are of the path between the catchment basin and the marsh where Jake and I can usually walk without getting out feet wet. Annie just goes for a wade here and there. The first photo was taken at 7 PM, while the second was at 7 AM, and shows the top of the storm drain in the middle of the "hill", about six feet above water level where the turtles laid their eggs in the spring. They have drowned by now...

Last night, in order to get this photo, we had to wade through water in the ditches that was over my knees. The dogs had to swim about four feet. Neither of them were impressed. This morning, Annie and I could splash through, and Jake could jump over what was left.

This clump of cattails is usually at the edge of the water.

This small tributary to the Carp River is usually about 5 feet wide.

This duck family from spring is on that tributary, a bit upstream,

while this was what it looked like last night.

All of this area was developed to protect the houses surrounding it from flooding, but a lot of people had two feet of water in their basements yesterday. We were lucky to only have a couple of gallons come in the basement window. There are rumours that a couple of people were electrocuted in their flooded basements.