Got water?

Here’s a shot taken from my back yard at 8:10…..water in the creek and river already high.

Now taken from basically the same spot at 9:45….still rising fast

Tom you will be fishing from the deck pretty soon. I heard you guys had 8.1 inches. I guess it is a test of the flood control project from years ago.

I had just over 4″ here at the house but over 8 fell to the west, southwest and northwest.

I’m not worried about here at home but by day’s end I might be able to fish from the yard. The news is saying we had record rainfall on top of already very wet ground.

When I left home this morning near Hinckley at 3:30, it was clear. Stars were out and the moon was shining, didn’t even have the fog yet. As I pulled out the driveway and turned south, I could see what look like a war going on!!! Man the lightning show was insane. I then pulled up the radar quick on my smarter than me phone and it looked nasty down there. I wonder if the ground will ever dry out this year…? We just got 2 inches Sunday when I didn’t need any of it..

I have a creek I can spit across in my backyard. Pretty sure we got the 8″ by the size of it now.
This spring has been brutal! I figured it would be July by the time I can get the boat out….now more water and heat! Perfect just perfect.

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IceNEyes1986 wrote:

I wonder if the ground will ever dry out this year…?

I could see what look like a war going on!!! Man the lightning show was insane.

The noon weather said we are +13″ ahead of normal for rainfall so far this summer.

You should have been under that lightning show. Thunder claps were undisguisable from one lightning strike to another. For over four hours, almost continuous.

The water levels seen in the bottom picture of my post have dropped a foot already. Love that flood control…..get the water in the channel fast and head it to the big Miss. The Lake Zumbro water level monitor site shows the rise almost straight up vertically. I haven’t been there to see how high its going to get yet but the lake has been a yo-yo all year.

Video showing some cattle that got swept away in the high water.
Hopefully, the link works. I heard that they were rescued…not sure how you would do that but I hope they were.

https://kttc.com/news/2019/06/28/roads-underwater-cattle-missing-near-oxbow-park/

They found all the cattle safe so that’s a good thing. 50 odd some of the critters got marooned and swept away.

Darn HG….can you get across the bridge at the falls?

Lake Zumbro’s normal pool level elevation is 914.6 feet. Right now the lakes elevation is 918.56 of just under 4 feet high. The monitor site shows the rise as straight up yet so this could get interesting, especially in the river below the dam.

Rochester’s Zumbro River level at 37th Street Bridge is 16.4 feet, about 12 feet above normal and the actual flood stage is 14 feet. We drove past an area this afternoon that has the river behind properties but not visible. The river was in their back yards when we went past.

For a while I thought the creek behind us had dropped a bit but another surge of water must have come down and jacked it up again. Really rolling right not and of course the numbies show up with kids and just have to get a picture of junior standing a foot away from the current. Been a circus all afternoon along the foot bridge and spillway.

a storm that wasnt supposed to be anywhere near us came straight down I-35 and pounded us with near two inches of rain in an hour this morning.
sure wish the angels would back those specially equipped cows away from the water trough,sheesh !!

Highway 52 is closed in both directions ecause of water over the roadway just north of here. From the videos I’ve seen it looks like almost a foot in areas. Traffic backed up for miles.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

Darn HG….can you get across the bridge at the falls?

So far!
Good to hear your high and dry!
Way too much water around here.
You can stop the rain dance now!
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Well, now all that water from sputh and west is here now!

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The sportsmans park is under too

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My brother wanted to go camping at hidden meadows. They got there Friday to this
(Their site is the last pole)

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What area is Hidden Meadows near? Town?

Highways 52 and 63 are now open. We drove thru Lake City today to Rochester and found a mess in Lake City….Waterski Days. Drove right thru it all. No stoppy. Zumbro Falls had plenty of mud. The ball park is a mess. We started out going east of Rochester and it basically looked as though nothing had ever happened. Eyota, Dover….no flooding at all.

Another blow got worked up this afternoon but it was all lightning and thunder and wind…..very little rain. But we did have thunder for over an hour non-stop again so someone south of here got smoked again.

Hidden Meadows is in Pine Island…right on a fork of the Zumbro.

What haleysgold said

breakerbreaker wrote:

bet the owner never thought his/hers ice castle would be flooded in the summer that would absolutely blow

Just pulling fish year round in that one

Haley’s….I hope you got your sand moved in the Falls. This is what we woke up to this morning. Again. This shot was taken at 7:30 AM. 1.5″ in the gauge since last night. No idea what fell south and west of here but both the Cascade and Zumbro are running fairly hard again. At 37th street with a broad basin the Zumbro is over 12 feet right now so you may get to double dip on sand.

This in the picture is still coming up. Lake Zumbro has already turned up too.

Update…..2.5″ and 5″ fell west and somewhat south of Rochester early this morning and the Oxbow Park area had been under a flood warning but I haven’t heard what the expiration time is for it. I’ll assume most of this rain fell over a fairly compact time frame again.

Ma and I took a little tour and found that the river at Mayowood is over the road and the road thru the drive is closed. The Zumbro is really pouring over where the 1978 flood took the road out. I saw one section of shoulder/roadway already gone. Again. The Cascade in west Rochester just beyond Country Club Manor’s south entry is flowing crazy thru the old golf course. Really rolling. That whole basin on the flat is full.

Immediately behind our home we are seeing water in the Cascade that we’ve seen only once before since the flood control work was finished. The amount of water moving thru this area is just nuts.