In the morning we found that the ditch had gone over it’s banks, enough that it was flowing *over* the foot bridge, over our neighbor’s driveway and over the top of the culvert at the end of the street! There was so much water, moving so fast that it dug through the separation between the two pieces of metal culvert and left a man sized hole there!
Drainage Ditch and Foot Bridge
Debris from flooding in neighbors driveway.
Main Drainage Cluvert with Debris
Hole dug by the water over the culvert.
The storm damaged the back end of the garden – luckily we hadn’t planted earlier that day like we had planned - it would have washed out all my cucumber and basil seeds if we had. As it is we’ll have to re-mulch… gar!
Garden Damage
Garden Damage 2
The ramp to the highway was flooded – the southbound on ramp always floods but this started 1/2 a mile back from the ramp and went all the way up under the underpass where the land rises just a bit. I was very annoyed at hubby for driving us through this… we didn’t, however, drive back through it to get home – we took the long way ’round.
Flooding approaching the highway ramps.
Flooding behind the truck stop.
Flooding off the Pennyrile.
The ‘long way ’round’ took us through Earlington – where the Earlington Lake’s spillway had totally exceeded it’s capacity and flooded the low lying areas around it. All of these pictures are actually after the water had been receeding a bit – the height of the flooding hit between 2 and 4 AM, I believe, and the pictures were taken between 10 and 11 AM.
Earlington flooding - hope these folks moved their dogs!
Earlington Flooding