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Post by Coolkat on Aug 20, 2021 6:28:14 GMT -8
A visitor taking advantage of the flood waters I can't tell what that is. Looks like a dead pig LOL If we got 6.5 inches it probably wouldn't hurt us here much but it would definitely start to make life interesting.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 20, 2021 10:40:34 GMT -8
I can't tell what that is. Beaver
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Post by zeke on Aug 21, 2021 3:15:06 GMT -8
Yes, I know this can go straight to OOC thread, but here goes. I remember the very first time I saw beavers. I had only seen them in wildlife clips, and in cartoons, until I was about 32. I was XC skiing along a slope above a good sized creek in the National forest west of Cody, Wy. I was probably a couple of hundred feet above the water. I saw these 2 animals down at the water's edge, and stopped to see what they were. I thought they might be year old bear cubs but it was too early in the year for them to be foraging for food. They were the size of a large dog, probably 3-4 feet long and 50-60 lbs.
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Post by starwalker on Aug 21, 2021 20:08:13 GMT -8
We get our water from a spring, we joke that we could sell bottled water it tastes so good, but it isn't that strong of a spring. About 20 years ago, a beaver took up residence in the spring. I was afraid to shoot it as it would bleed into our water, so I got a game warden to come and trap it.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 22, 2021 18:42:56 GMT -8
Flood waters receded and roads reopened just in time for Henri to come knocking. So far, we've been spared, but if the rain band was 10 miles further west, we would have been in the bullseye again. One locale in the hills upstream has been most unfortunate. They got hit with this rain band from Henri... which makes about 12" of rain for them this week. Average for the month of August is around 3.5".
Looks like the Poconos and northern NJ are getting pounded and it might stall there overnight.
And then 20+ dead and around 40 missing after 17" fell in Tennessee.
It's been a BAD weather week here in the eastern half of the US.
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Post by Travis on Aug 22, 2021 18:58:34 GMT -8
Glad to hear from you WWBF. It can be hard for a Westerner like me to conceive of such downpours and flooding. I have to look back to the early 1970s when Rapid City SD got something like 15" rain in an hour or so. Rapid Creek, which flows through the city, hit town like a tidal wave and wiped out houses anywhere near the creek, and killed 238 people. Evidently the flood was the result of cloud seeding, which was halted immediately.
But to risk such events every year on much larger scale is beyond my experience.
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Post by absarokanaut on Aug 23, 2021 5:22:15 GMT -8
WWBF and all of you facing bad weather all I can do is offer a little bit of the big August Cool. Yesterday in the Southern Absaroka.
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Post by absarokanaut on Aug 26, 2021 7:53:20 GMT -8
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Post by oldbill on Aug 26, 2021 12:04:24 GMT -8
I guess not unexpected. Hope they start getting enough contained that the heavy smoke will finally abate. Headed to Wyoming this weekend regardless. Just hope not to have to backpack with a respirator! Still beats the heat and humidity in the NE.
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Post by Travis on Aug 26, 2021 13:36:48 GMT -8
Headed to Wyoming this weekend regardless. Just hope not to have to backpack with a respirator! In my area of Wyoming, north-central to northeast, the smoke is high altitude. That is, too high to smell or inhale. It merely adds a haze to the sky much of the day and reminds us of fire further west and north.
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Post by absarokanaut on Aug 29, 2021 18:29:49 GMT -8
Just the absolute slightest of haze if at all this weekend, marvelous! Gros Ventre Wilderness Saturday.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 30, 2021 5:08:10 GMT -8
Still beats the heat and humidity in the NE. The dewpoint was in the 80s yesterday. I was literally dripping sweat merely by fixing my son's bike kickstand (a replace a screw and a tighten a bolt). So ridiculous. Plus, clouds of mosquitoes after the recent floods. Syracuse, N.Y -- A combination of seemingly endless thunderstorms and tropical storms have delivered Syracuse its wettest summer since weather records began in 1902.
This summer has also tied for the most uncomfortable nights, when the lowest temperature was 70 or more.
Since the summer solstice on June 20, more than 17 inches of rain have fallen at Hancock International Airport. This year’s deluge has also shattered the previous record for that time period, set in 2006, which was just under 15 inches. Normal rainfall for June 20 to Aug. 24 is 8 inches. www.syracuse.com/weather/2021/08/this-is-syracuses-rainiest-summer-in-at-least-120-years.htmlAnd my creek's drainage basin has gotten much more rain than the official station at the Syracuse airport.
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Post by zeke on Aug 30, 2021 5:14:56 GMT -8
Cajun hiker has checked in as OK. Still not heard from Bateaux driver. Both of them are previously active posters, but not so much now.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 30, 2021 9:36:54 GMT -8
Still not heard from Bateaux driver. He just posted on Facebook. Only minor damage.
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Post by reuben on Aug 30, 2021 13:34:02 GMT -8
Still waiting to hear from friends a bit further west, between Baton Rouge and Lafayette. They should be OK, but on is right next to a levee, and about 12 inches above the mean water level, surrounded by trees, etc.
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