2017 Begins - Week Two - Days 11 and 12

The worst seems to be over, even though it's still raining.  The clouds are thinning, the rain gauge isn't filling as fast, and the closed highway is open again.  (Am told a section of highway down by Four Trees Rd. washed out from underneath, leaving slumped pavement for a ways.)  The work crews are out in force, and we are hopeful that the power and phones will soon be restored.  Uncle G. has kept the water supply flowing, so we don't have that problem to contend with, thank golly.  I hope my Scrap-booking this event isn't boring you.  I wish I could convey the sounds and smells of the river's and creek's turbulence

The river is down by one rock-height as Day 11 begins

the morning and afternoon runs up the road to do mail and phonecalls showed the blackberry creek staying contained

at the Longville Rd. pullout just east of Belden, I see the backroad is still underwater

panorama shot, moving westward.  at the end of this post I will show tomorrow's view of this.

Mikey's wood stacks sort of got swept away at the Maple Leaf, though some remained

Sacred Waterfall

coming home from my evening phone-call with Jeffery, I see there is work being done on the Dump Road

the current along the highway from the wash-out 

the sun peaks out and shows the Jackass Creek waterfall

Jackass Creek

Storrie Retreat is having some water overwhelment.  That highway puddle looks shallow, but it's not.

One of the creek-ways coming out of Storrie

Near Buck's Creek, another new waterway edges the highway

Laurie's Creek

A view of the Hidden Waterfall

here's another shot of Rock Creek

Rock Creek looking downstream

Swamp Creek, with the Cresta Dam down low

cool highway-side waterfall

uh-oh!  the culvert got blown out again (seen on Facebook)

the hanging tracks with a portion of the creek behind

The double rainbow over Tobin (also shown on FB)

Used the afternoon sunshine to check on the Blackberry Creek Project and found them working on it, so that the waters turned brown, and I thought they'd "plugged the leak" until I saw the brown was moving.

see how the waters have turned white again?

here's the "trouble-maker" who is fixing the problem.  You can't see the water-run below him, but

the waterfalls are mud-brown

In this next view, you see the creek below his tractor

now the water is clearing up!  I could just watch all day, but I needed to go prep the generator for the night-time, and run up to call Jeffery, since I hadn't reached him earlier.

debris pile at the dam where I get cell service, 5 miles up from Tobin

Splashed through the Blackberry Creek, which had eroded and started to cross the highway again as I came home.

A front-end loader (right?) came to work on it.

the flow goes over the edge and to the river.

this pullout is going to need some repair, as it's all mushy from being washed.

The crew is assembling to work on the culvert blow-out all night long.  Bang, crash, beep beep beep.....

river is way down as Day 12 begins

the work is still proceeding as I take my morning walk to the White Cliffs

the tractor-man is right at the top of the cliff, berming the creek so it stays off the Dump Road

Day 12's evening phone-run shows that the culvert repair is going apace.

The river just above Belden has receded

quite a different look since just yesterday.

Until there are major updates, I vow not to bore you with any more of this flood excitement.  But it was interesting to see how nice Caltrans kept the roadways, and how it could've been worse, but wasn't as far as storm damage and peril goes.  Thanks for looking in!