Ark. flooding.....

[Big Muddy]

A buddy from Heber Springs sent this pic to me.....Bucky lives quite a distance from Heber, but I called him, just to see if he's got his snorkel and boat plug handy.....no answer, but I left him a message.

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[airbud7]

you said the other day you might go fishing in the parking lot...you weren't kidding!

[BarryBobPosthole]

i have kinfolk there and from what they’ve told me most of the serious flooding is out around Lake Conway. Hopefully, it didn’t get to where he lives.

BkB

[Chicken Dinner]

Man, that is something else. We’ve had almost 5” of rain this month, but that was the first meaningful rain we’d had since August or September. No where near flooding, but a good drought ended.

I think I saw on FB that Archer’s farm is under water. Be safe everyone.


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[Arty]

My mom, brothers, and friends from back home have been sending me photos all day. I believe the Ohio reaches its peak flood stage sometime today.
I saw pics this morning that haven’t been flooded since 1997, and other places flooded that I have never seen.
Apparently the Big Bend and Little Bend of the Ohio hasn’t been this high but 4 times on record. (Maybe it’s 5, I misremember).

[Big Muddy]

Here's the daily rain totals that I've dumped outta my rain gauge since Feb. 1st:

> 1.5"---1.2"---.75"---3.1"---.25---.30---1.7"---5.0"---1.6"

[Big Muddy]

Bucky texted me back, and said they were on the beach in Florida, swimming with the whales.....just kiddin', but he did say they were traveling, extensively.

[Hombre]

Good to hear about Bucky and dang muddy that's a lot of water.

[Big Muddy]

You got that right, Hombre.....all our rivers, cricks, and road ditches are backed up and flowing backwards.....my place is an island, right now.....when it gets too deep for my 4x4 truck, I'm gonna hook up a trailer with some lawn chairs aboard, behind one of my tractors, and haul family and neighbors out to higher ground, to go to work and get groceries and essentials.

Miss. River is jumping about 1.5 feet a day, so there's no place for our local flooded rivers and bayous to flow in to.....it's starting to look a lot like the epic Miss. River flood of 2011, or maybe even worse, this time.

The only positive side is, after the 2011 flood waters subsided, I absolutely murdered the crappie, every where I fished.....best I remember, I put about 100 lbs. of crappie fillets in my freezer.