Our New Lakeside View - Flooding On The Farm

in homesteading •  7 years ago 

It's never a dull moment when you have a farm! We awoke early yesterday morning and several areas of our pastures had flooded overnight. We were a little surprised that the flooding happened so quickly (overnight)!

This is part of our largest pasture.
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Our Jersey cow, Sweet Daisy Mae, was enjoying her lakeside view until she wound up surrounded by water on her little "island." Luckily, she was near a gate and I was able to rescue her without walking through water. What you can't see in the picture is that under all that water are a few sink holes. Our fear was that eventually she would get hungry and could potentially step into a sink hole trying to make it back up to the barn. I also worried that if the water rose she could end up in a bad situation.

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This is another pasture of ours that is flooded as well.
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The neighbor had some flooding on his property and our free range ducks quickly found their way over there and enjoyed splashing and swimming in the water!
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The rain continues to fall, but most of the flooding receded overnight. Our "lake" seems to have disappeared as fast as it arrived.


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Good to see you keep afloat!

It's a good thing I live in Kentucky where we have an ark prepared. LOL ;)

I'm glad it has receded that could have gotten really bad.