Yeah, I know Robinson. I've got 2 (much smaller) ponds built since, and should probably be thankful that I never built that big one. It's a dream site, but just has too much drainage in the event of a major storm event.

We actually had two 5" rain events one week apart about 6 years ago. I'm 42 and lived here the whole time and I've NEVER seen flashflooding like that.

DOT used a snowplow to push a bunch of railroad ties (maybe 500) back off US 61 that the storm floated across the highway...and then had to do the same thing the next weekend. At least the second time they pushed them to the DOWNSTREAM side of the road.

That's a once in a century type of thing around here, but time goes on.

In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...