January Flooding 2009 is of biblical proportions! After almost a month of rain in December, we were hoping to see relief from the drought. Maybe some people prayed too hard for rain.
We GOT it. Did you know our land is adjacent to Flint Creek?
Bottomlands. Wetlands. Sections of this lovely place were covered with 4 feet of water just a few days ago. It is surely a mess.
Yes, sediments are supposed to fertilize the land, but I think that was in days of old. In this case, it covered the driveways with trash and debris like old tires, broken toys, styrofoam, plastic trash of every imaginable sort.
Yes, we lost LOTS of pecans. I wept to know a major crop was floating away. Sure, we tried to retrieve some, but whole BAGS were floating. And who knows what else was in the brown silty water besides us.
Four beehives did not make it. They did not float away but the bees drowned. Sad. Another crop and lots of tiny lives. No one thinks about these little creatures in a storm. We did. The beekeeper is sad too.
Flint Creek flows into the Tennessee River which is due to crest at 18 ft. tomorrow. I have never seen it that high. People who live in the lowlands or cotton fields will be devastated by this. Another unreported sadness in our news.
Today the sun shines and we clean up from the mess and remember our brothers and sisters who struggled through flooding in New Orleans not that long ago.
Agricultural forecast for this season is grim too. Let’s take it one day at a time. Hardly can keep up with anything more than that. More than once we have thought of Noah.
The small greenhouse was destroyed by winds. Thankfully the large greenhouse is still in place and the greens are alive and doing well, just high enough above the floodlines.
