The Day After

Whoa!!! 2.5 inches of rain beginning, maybe, at 3ish a.m.? Vi Flokstra just a bit south and west of Krols on Riley Street got an inch and a few tenths. Krols had 2.5. Schreurs and others around there had 1.5. Up at the Bauer land, maybe a couple tenths. But, we had 2.5. Sure are thankful for the big push of the last two days (not to be confused with The Big Push)............................... This photo shows the improvement at the corner and in Brian Hoppen's field due to the recent repair of the culvert by the road commission. If you look in the distance you will see the field that is flooded due to the county drain being overfilled by so much run-off.

Just south of the barn a bit, on the west side of the road, is our soybean acreage here at home. It had a lot of water flooding it, but that will go down fairly quickly when the county drain is able to accept so much surface run-off. Because of the tiling underneath and because no plants are above the ground, we will see minimal damage from the rain. The matting of the floating corn debris could be the only problem.

You can see from this photo that the water really is moving through our property. Shown here, the outlet that receives water from the soybean field...