The lake has a spillway, so yesterday after the horrendous rain stopped, the lake did go down a bit. It’s still full to the brim and with each rain the water from the surrounding hills flow into it. The ground is saturated and we will be getting rains until about Thursday.
Yes we are on a high spot. Thank goodness. A lot of our streets were flooded and there are still flash flood warnings out for the country roads. This is a pretty old town and some of the sewer lines are as old as the town, so consequently some of the streets did flood.
I’ve had a great time watching the fishermen “checking” the lake. There have been quite a few golf carts with a couple of fellow, not with clubs, but with fishing gear, seeing what kind of fish we “now” have in our swollen lake. One fellow waded out to his waist to get his line farther out toward the middle. I don’t know what they were fishing for. The other day I saw a snapping head turtle heading toward our stock tank. Roomey took him down to the river and threw him in. You know when those turtles take hold of something, they don’t let go. When Roomey threw him or it, into the river, he still had the stick in his mouth. That’s how Roomey pick him up. He took a stout stick and put it against the creatures mouth and it bit, Roomey lifted it up put it in the truck bed, took it too the river, picked up the stick, with turtle still attached and dropped it into the river. Hopefully at some point the turtle let the stick go. lol