That 3/4 of a inch will be go when the wind shifts but I'm sure you know that. Looks like the waves are taking there toll on the soil around the shop. Owell in a couple few weeks it will all be gone CP meeting at Carl's don't forget your rake and gloves guys

-- Edited by 57poncho on Saturday 25th of April 2009 08:57:10 PM

What did you do with your redneck rocker

We went 2 miles west to check up on some friends tonight. We were the first ones from outside their dike (it encompasses about 6 homes) to visit them all week!

Nice boating, by the time we came home it was like glass.

A pretty end to a nice day (or at least as good a day as it could be, considering...)

Carl, I am dowloading your pics. As said very artistic!!!

Where's an Amphicar when you need one?

Down about another 1" or so. This is where it starts to get interesting, and I don't mean in a good way. When we went out last night the outboard was starting to hit at each mile road and railway we have to cross. So.........., no we have to know where everything is and lift each time we get there. Before we could just tour across like one big lake. It will get worse, too. Likely in another couple of days it will drop enough that our main road will not be showing but each crossroad will not have enough water on it to boat across. At that point I have two options-

1) Sit tight until it drops enough to drive to the closest point I am able to boat to, or

2) Boat out as far as I can and then walk down the railway in rubber boots to the vehicle, likely 2 miles. Walking 2 miles on a nice uneven surface like a railway in rubber boots is not exactly what my borderline lower back would appreciate!

We'll see how it all transpires.

The Province has an official department called Manitoba Water Stewardship (MWS) that monitors this whole flood situation. They have many posts scattered around the countryside with measurements on them that they recorded the levels on when the water was rising. These posts are pounded in beside roads. Some of them were totally submerged and will have worked themselves loose in the waves. MWS was nice enough on Sunday night to donate one to our cause. It floated up on our beach so I immediately put it to good use. They are called Water Stewardship so I wanted to be a good steward as well and not let it go to waste!

I know, I've been watching your weather. My wife's sister and family live in Lethbridge. They constantly rub it in our face in the winter when it's nice there.

We haven't heard too much from them lately.............

Like you say, this too shall pass, for both of us!

Oh, and someone asked me last night how much water this would calculate to. Of course I just happen to have the time to figure it out. If I figured right, each square mile of land is covered by approximately 60,300,000 gallons of water.

For you young bucks out there, I believe that would be 273,762,000 litres....

Well, I mentioned a few posts up that I may have a "treat" today. My treat has arrived.

Canadian Poncho member 67SD396, my nephew from Alberta was kind enough to come and endure a little bit of time in the flood zone with me. I boated him in after supper tonight. I think his jaw may eventually return to it's normal position but for now I think he's somewhat in awe, never having seen this before.

As you can imagine, there's a bit of Canadian Pontiac talk going on here! Boy it's nice to have company!!!

I haven't been as faithful with updates the last couple of days for 2 reasons-

First, having 67SD396 here from Alberta for company has been such a blessing I have neglected you all.......

Second, it's pretty boring as far as change. We drop an average of about 2" per day at best so the scenery has remained pretty much the same, sadly.

This is the view off the front step this morning. We had almost 1/2" of rain yesterday which won't help anything.

Thanks for the shot..nice well not that nice just that it is what it is.

We (67SD396 and I) went out this morning to bring the kids in for the weekend. Ugly, ugly, ugly.....! It has dropped enough that we had to drag the boat over one of the roads on the way to the car. We boated by our neighbour's big Ford that is almost up to the hood in water. It rained and snowed on our way out against wind. That was a treat I must say!!!

We got some new aerial shots. I have no idea who took them.

In this shot, if you look in the foreground at the biggest clump of trees you can see a little bit of white. That is the doors on the shed beside our house.



In this one, we are the biggest clump, upper left.



In this one, we are just below the top of the biggest clump of trees. The north side of Morris is at the top.