water

water issues come in various forms..usually either too little or too much...thirteen days ago there was considerable snow in my back yard...this has since melted and was followed by around four inches of rain in the middle of last week...

this has induced local creeks and rivers to abandon their banks for the surrounding countryside...

leaving behind silt and debris as their levels fell...all that water had to run off from somewhere and, in this particular stretch of deep river, that was from the surrounding fields...

which exacerbated old breaches in the field's berms...

and opened some fresh ones where there had been none before...these are not no til fields and the washed out areas in the fields will be filled in again with spring plowing in preparation for planting of field corn or soy beans...the berms probably will not be filled in..and next year that much more erosion will go on...this was not catastrophic flooding...there were some issues in suburban areas...roads were closed and there was doubtlessly water in many basements...i haven't heard a word about injuries, much less loss of life, though...and it is happening here more regularly...becoming expected...routine...events that would have been rarities decades ago are becoming a new normal...there is no dearth of water this late winter verging on early spring...wondering what summer will be like.