Yes, the weather has been pretty crappy this spring. Weekend after weekend was a washout. Then, we got a break only to have the rains come back every Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and Fridays. This is the fourth flooding at the lake this year. True, the past two has not been as bad as the first and that is the focus of this post. That hasn't stopped the big trees falling as the soaked soils will no longer hold the shallow roots and the massive trees topple. I saw one today by the Stone Tables that Parks had cut as it lay on the ground. Crews will get the rest.
The one place to go if when flash flood warnings are issued, if you want to see a creek as wide as a river and currents as strong as any flooded river current flowing downstream, is under the Mockingbird Bridge. The plastic bottles, soccer balls, and big Tide laundry bottles (empty,of course) flow into White Rock Lake with these flash floods from bank to bank and the currents take it across the lake from east to west. The tide and egg cartons come down from the northern communities was trash containers are blown over in the alleys and the runoff carries it out into the storm drains that flow into White Rock Creek and its branches.
However, the past two floods were eeriely absent of debrit flow. Did the first two floods wash it all downstream? Did people start clearning up after themselves? Did people stop drinking water in plastic bottles? The only big displays I see of water anymore are on TV when the Red Cross Disaster Relief is passing out water. Even worse, did some big limestone cravasse open up a mammoth cave somewhere upstream and it's now flowing into that. Maybe. Something happened to it because even today, the water was level with the banks of the lake but I only saw one styro foam cup. I did see two big chunks of a good size tree but outside of that, it was a clean flow into the lake.
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| Beautiful Lavender |
Since tomorrow is Mother's Day, remember, if you see people wearing roses pinned to themselves, the red ones mean that their moms are living. If they wear white, then they have passed. And the images will be for the moms.
We wish all the mom's a Happy Mother's Day.
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| Look how trim Mr. Squirrel is! He's been working out and not sitting in some tree getting all wet! |
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| Beautiful Colors From All That Rain |
