Devonviolet Acres

[Bruce]

But, I'm not going to hold my breath.

I wouldn't, talk is cheap. Especially when it comes to bureaucrats promising things.

 

[Devonviolet]

The rain has finally stopped and we actually saw the sun! The sunset, this evening was amazing!

We went out for dinner and on our way to town (going on a different gravel road, from the one that flooded earlier), we ran into more flooding across the road.

This is an 8' tree trunk that floated halfway across the road.

There is water going through a 2' culvert, from the truck window.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Dats a lot of wetness....

 

[CntryBoy777]

The roads around here have so many trees on them that after a severe storm ya have to tote a chainsaw in your vehicle to clear the roads to be able to get thru....

 

[Devonviolet]

The roads around here have so many trees on them that after a severe storm ya have to tote a chainsaw in your vehicle to clear the roads to be able to get thru....

That's a good point. I never thought about it, but having a chainsaw, in your truck, after a storm is a good idea. One time, after a near tornado, @Baymule and her DH got stopped by a very large tree across the road.

 

[greybeard]

Well, it seems that the worst, of the rain, is past us. We have gotten a total of 7-1/4 inch in the past 4 days.



It's not too bad, but as you can see, our road has flooded.
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Back in the Winter of 2015 it flooded a lot worse. I have been trying since then to get the county to raise the road (in 2 places) & put in culverts to manage the rain water runoff, and was told they were planning on doing it. But, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Low water crossings. Pretty common in Texas. We have a few around here.
Don't get me started on county commissioners.....
Last 2 times the 1/2 mile long county road that dead ends into our place got graded, I had to do it myself. Needs it again now, but too wet and too many pine needles..needles just roll up under a grader blade and you can't work the gravel.
Same road has 2 little draws or arroyos that run under it..but for years, water ran over the road. My dad finally put culverts in himself so the road ran over the draws. County finally replaced one of them last year.

There's about 100' of that road at the end, that the county admits belongs to them, but they have never done any maintenance or brought any material in for, tho the commissioner has promised to several times.
It got so muddy year before last right at the end of that road, I had to get two 14 yard trucks of crushed limestone brought in on my dime just so wife could get her car in and out and me and the commissioner had words about it after church one Sunday. It didn't go well..He denied ever promising to fix the road, I called him a liar to his face in front of a bunch of his friends and told him he needed to go back inside and talk to the Big Man Upstairs about his breaking the 9th commandment.

 

[Devonviolet]

My daughter sent me this today.

 

[Bruce]

That WOULD be a good reason!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

 

[Baymule]

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