I knew something was up when I could see the boat dock from the house! It was, the boat dock!

And that water-way on the left is NOT supposed to be there!



The blue "noodle" at the right corner of the dock is stuck in the post that the dock glides up and down on, and it's nearly at the top.


It will be interesting to see how much it has receded when I get home from work as they're calling for more rain tonight.

This is the highest I've seen the pond since I've been here!

Only 2" here last night in the northern part of the county.

9.5" according to my neighbor near Denton - pond came up 2' and flowing thru tube for the first time in 8 years. Appears to have gotten at least 2' higher at some point this morning or last night according to debris line along pond. Hard for me to believe 9.5" - but I did have a couple 5G buckets with at least 8" rainwater in them. Not sure if a 5G bucket is a reliable rain measurement device or not.

4.00 here. People north and west of me got hammered!

Glad you Nebraska guys finally got some badly needed rain. I hope it wasn't too much.

Weather report last night looked like Snrub's SE Kansas area was really gonna get hammered.

Another 1/2" in the gauge this morning so far.

Same here!

Lincoln newspaper confirmed 9-9.5" in various areas of Lincoln - called it a 200 year rain event! Wow - can't believe there wasn't more damage. That stuff doesn't happen up here, except every 200 yrs I guess.

TJ, did you lose any fish through your spillway???

Unfortunately I have a number of folks tearing carpet out of their basements this week. One client said there were rolls of carpet lining the curbs up and down his neighborhood.

Even more unfortunate that it's not covered under homeowners insurance .

Tough week at the office!

I must have lost tons of fish - thinking primarily forage or small panfish but who knows. I did see grass shrimp struggling against the current popping out of the water just before rolling through the tube. It's the first and only time anything more than a trickle has been through the pipe. I think my emergency spillway was almost used, which is nutso considering my small watershed.

We were upwards of 8" here in a bit more than 24 hours. I had water within 6 inches of breaching my levee.

I believe I'm going to have to lower my emergency spillway...I'd like it to be running the next time we get that much rain.

I think the meteorologists are going to need to redefine what a '100 year' or '200 year' rain event means. we've had like 3 '100 year' events here in the last 6.

I was curious if anything was passing through my overflow pipes from my sediment and forage ponds into my main pond. In about 5 minutes of holding a net over the outlet of each only caught one half grown FHM from the sediment pond. Yet I could go to the inlet side and swipe the net two feet in front of the inlet and get several minnows with each swipe. So not many passing through. But these overflow pipes are only 6 inch so maybe not enough flow to suck them in. Just my experience. In my situation, I would actually like to see some pass through these pipes, but of course not out my main pond overflow, so kind of hard to have it both ways.

Sometimes a lot of small fish go through during high water events. From my dad's old pond. This was less than 10% of what we returned to his pond.

Only had 2.5" here. Pond was 55" low yesterday before the rain, I haven't been back there to check today.

O.K. I checked. Pond came up exactly 2.5". Very few puddles left on the ground, even in the sandy/clayey soil that came out of the pond basin.

Yikes, Steve!

I have so many BG, RES, and YOY hanging around the dock and the weeds along the shorline, that I now wonder how many may have washed out from the overflow in the third pic above when it was at full force!

In my case, that is exactly what I would like to see happen from my forage and sediment pond flowing into my main pond. Let the adults produce YOY in these ponds and then get a good bunch of them flushed into my main pond during a large rain event. We normally get at least one and sometimes several of these events during a year.

I couldn't be that lucky for it to work that way though.

snrub that's exactly what I planned for...my 'forage pond' is actually the water on the hot side of the dry dam at the beginning of my pond. It's the sediment catch. I stocked it with FHM this past spring and they've been busy little breeders all year. The only positive to this inundation of rain that we got was that it was BOUND to have washed some of them into the main body...I hope...