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Heres the Milk River Bridge on my road to town...Already flooding out in the trees on the one side... Weather folks are predicting the river to be 3 feet over flood stage by morning- which will be close to going over our road..
Heres a picture I stole off FB taken by the Highway Dept.. The reason the Highways are closed in several places in central MT. This is water across the road on US 191 south of Malta (north of Bohemian Corners) on the road toward Billings....
We are about to build arks here again- as we have picked up 1.6" of rain today- which on top of the 3" we received last week gives us 4.6" ... May not sound like much- but in an area that averages 11.5 inches of moisture a year- and survives some years on 9 or 10- this is a lot of moisture.. We are almost 5" over the average for this time of the year... And its still raining...
We should have expected this- with all the fog we had this winter...The old 90 days past a fog is coming true again...
Definitely is making everything green and producing some beautiful grass on the prairies... The negative is it is washing out some roads and the standing water is drowning out some fields.....I still haven't gotten my AI heifers hauled out to pasture- or my bulls out with the cows- but there is no big hurry.... I usually don't go out with bulls until the 6th to the 10th- and if I'm later than that because of the flooding I may be thankful next spring if we have another witch of a spring...
More Pictures:
http://www.krtv.com/news/flooding-conti ... tyPhoto/0/