Saturday, May 7, 2005

A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 500 AM PDT SUN FOR THOM'S CREEK & JOSEPH CREEK ON THE WEST CNTL SLOPES OF THE WARNER MOUNTAINS. THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN MEDFORD HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM PDT SUN FOR THOM'S CREEK AND JOSEPH CREEK 0N THE WEST CNTL SLOPES OF THE WARNER MOUNTAINS. MODOC COUNTY OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED EXTENSIVE SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN THIS AREA. SNOWMELT WILL CONTINUE TO FEED THE STREAMS.& MORE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SUNDAY. 2:27:43 PM    comment [] Haytime On the way, I found balsamroot coming up everywhere, blossoming, even, here next to Fernando. Not Mule's ears, but real balsamroot, the first I've seen since I moved to Modoc in '99. 11:02:06 AM    comment [] Big Picture, 10:30 a.m. 10:56:36 AM    comment [] A long sleep, such weariness. At 7:30 I saw the water had receded two feet. At 8, down ten. The clouds made an opening for the sun at 9. Four geese paddled around the flooded pasture, happy. The llamas, calmer today, stay up in the junipers. The fences are gone from three sides of their enclosure. The big pond has a gap now where the waters streamed over all yesterday. The great heavy clouds move on rapid currents, eastward. I'll have to fashion slings to carry hay if I have to do much slipping along the slope to the dry feeding place. N. will drive me out from his side of the torrent so I can mail my book orders, fetch my paycheck, send rent and deposit to North Carolina, as promised, though late. I don't know how I'll keep the llamas here once the water level falls. I hope tomorrow's predicted storm is an unreliable rumor. Today's photos here. 9:30:45 AM    comment [] 7:30 a.m.: Day 2 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. THE SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE WARNER MTNS & FOOTHILLS STREAMS & CREEKS HAS BEEN CANCELED. SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL HAS ENDED IN MODOC COUNTY. LOCALIZED FLOODING DUE TO THE ACCELERATED MELTING OF SNOWPACK FROM WARM RAINS WILL TAPER OFF CONSIDERABLY TODAY WITHOUT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. 9:30:08 AM    comment []

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