Flood!

If you've been paying attention to news accounts northern Wisconsin was hammered with record rains last Sunday evening and early Monday morning.  About six inches fell here at The Platz within a relatively short period of time.  My rain gauge was filled to the brim - never happened in memory.

In any event - yesterday the girls and I made our circuit of the trail cameras to swap-out memory cards and replace batteries as needed.

Of note was the amount of water still on the landscape.  Standing water everywhere in the trails - so trail maintence is going to be on hold for a spell until things dry-out sufficiently to get the tractor and mower out without getting mired and stuck.  And Silver Creek was running a full-bore - largely a spring phenomena - a rare occurance in mid-July.  All of this almost a week following the great monsoon.

Then there was this: 

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The waters have since receded with only the flattened turf as evidence of the extent the creek overflowed its banks seeking a way down stream.   

From a trail camera north of the creek was this dramatic proof of the great flood of 2016.  This matches the locating in the first photo above...