Bunk and all (more off topic)
Since we wrote this silly stuff seems like my friends in Nebrasky have been inflicted with exactly what we was talkin about - thats if there is any of the windmill stickin out to be found from the rowboat. Does anybody have news from that direction? Sounds like the worst of it was in the Northwest - but thats from the news - I have developed a habit of non belief in the news .
Good to see this place back on line I was suffering withdrawal.
Its been. . . interesting. Eastern third or so of the state got rain, falling on frozen ground or snow, so it was all instant runoff. Western part of the state got snow. Lots and lots of snow. I'm sorta on the edge of both zones, we got 8" or so of snow followed by rain.
Most of the bad stuff missed us here (about 30 mins S-SW of Valparaiso). We still had roads most places, once the water recedes. I heard mention that the river crested at 22', but I suspect that was a guess: the water gauges were submerged. Fairground flooded, highways submerged, etc. I got to live on an island for a few days. The locals were threatening to slap me if I didn't stop whistling the theme from
Gilligan's Island (The trick is to do it while wading in waist-deep water dodging miniature icebergs to get a tow line out to a truck that got caught when the water level suddenly rose a few feet. You're safe then!). Spent a few days driving for an hour and covering 30-40 miles to detour around the flooded roads to make the 8 mile trip to town: a lot of trial-and-error to find roads that were passable. A lot of folks are still tallying up stock lost, especially calves, while they repair or replace fences.
I've heard nothing from Valparaiso, going to have to head up there for work this week and will make a bit of a detour if I can to check roads and maybe range conditions.
Northeast corner of the state, and along the Missouri, got hit with flooding pretty hard, in a "tie that canoe off to the weathervane and c'mon in for coffee" sort of way. Situation there is still a mess. I took I80 through Omaha and into Iowa today, some roads still flooded.