How high's the water?

Yesterday in the afternoon it begain to rain. We'd had a week or so of clear weather, so the rain was overdue. And it came down, boy.

This morning I went down to let the chickens out and to check the rain gauge. The gauge was overflowing. So, in the first 16 hours of the storm, we got over 6 inches of rain. It's still coming down fitfully, and NOAA says we should expect maybe 2 inches today and another inch to inch and a half tomorrow.

The chickens don't mind all that much. When I opened the chicken door, they all came flapping out, running around the little run. They were just happy to be outside. When the rain starts coming down really hard, they huddle under the little shelter I built them. They'd rather be outside standing under a little roof than inside that coop during the day. And I can't say I blame them. I, too, would rather be out on the porch.

The creek has risen maybe a foot. The center sections of the big fir downstream have been carried away by the torrent.

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