Interesting Day-Saturday was

What is normally a quiet, peaceful creek became a mad rushing river in a matter of moments.

This field bottom looked like a lake. This is the area where the creek broke it's banks and came out over the highway for about 4 hours.

What you see here is normally a hay field.

The creek runs alongside the tree line to the right of this picture.

Watching and waiting as the water recedes off the highway.

What you see here (picture above) is where the creek broke over it's banks and is coming back out into the hayfield. Several round bales of hay were seen floating down the river, too.

You can see here where the water pooled and created a whole under the highway. It took about 30 minutes or so for the water to completely recede off the highway from this point. It went down fast.

Ah, the water is down and I'm on my way home. Just a few moments prior to this picture this area was a rushing river!

Saturday, September 19th was a rather interesting day. First off, it was unusual because I went to Mountain Home, AR. I hardly ever go to Mtn. Home on a weekend, since I'm there Mon-Fri, unless something is planned. But, this particular day I had to since I was to attend my BeautiU training to become a BeautiControl Independent Consultant. I passed by the way. I am now ready to go forth with it. Spa anyone?

Well, this really wasn't the interesting part to my day; although very fun. Let me back up a bit. While at lunch this day it was raining buckets! By the time I was headed home the rain had stopped.

Ok, this brings me to the interesting part. I knew there were chances of rain for Saturday, but didn't expect what was received in some areas. The further north I drove the more I noticed washed out gravel on the highway and could see where ditches had been running full of water. As I was approaching the Lick Creek Fire Department, on J Hwy (201 in AR) I could see there was a first responder stopping traffic. All the traffic in front of me was turning around and coming back toward me. I didn't really know what was going on until . . . The first responder asked the car ahead of me if they were headed to Gainesville and they told him yes. He simply and kindly replied, "No one is getting through because there is water over the road." I was thinking "WHAT?!" Now it is my turn. I told him to not even bother telling me because I heard him tell the car in front of me. I told him I was going to Dora and if Gainesville bound folks couldn't go through I knew I couldn't. He said I could turn around and find a different way or wait for about an hour or so for the water to recede. Well, I had never seen or heard of the water being over the highway at the Lick Creek bridge so I opted to wait it out. What else did I have to do besides clean house?

I really didn't know what to expect to see, as I have never in my life heard or seen water over the road here. I came around the corner to what looked like a lake of water. What is normally a little creek that just has a trickle was now a rushing, roaring river! It was absolutely amazing to see; especially watching the water recede. In the matter of about an hour and 45 minutes the water went back down off the highway to allow cars to pass.

It was about 3:40 pm when I arrived at the bridge. The water had been up since about 1:pm ish. And, it had gone down quite a bit when I arrived. At one point it was a bit over the 3 foot water marker located on the highway.


Until next time . . .