The other evening my friend down the road and I took a cruze around the neighbor hood to check and see what was going on.
Our neighbors yard was getting a little wet.
The river front view from the lady's porch.
We went down the other road to see how things are fairing. The water was starting to seep up and over the road.
We went up on a hill and had a look at another very flooded out part of the yard.
I picked up all those yard things that might float away up as well as all the bikes and things in the shed that might get wrecked.
Last thing I did before bed was go have a look at the river in my PJ's and Housecoat, because guess what? I can! Yes, it's one of the nice things about the ferry and the cable car being closed down. You can wander to the river in your house coat and there are no looky-looks or ferry operators to think that you've lost your marbles. The water was 11.295 meters high.
Yesterday morning after coffee I wandered back over to look again and seen it had come up a little more in the night. The water was at 11.41 meters at 6am.
Water was starting to come up in the main part of the yard so my husband and I moved some of the useless Lawn Tractors (had to be towed by the quad) and his snowmobile. I think he enjoyed moving the snowmobile.
There was starting to get to be a bit of a puddle in the main yard.
Water was starting to come up in between the house and the chicken house.
Yeah, there's water.
My neighbor phoned to see if I wanted to go for a walk to Kitselas Canyon. We were going to meet on the trail and hike down the train tracks. But when I got to the trail there was quite a bit of water.
She decided to attempt the road and go around to meet me. The water was getting deep. This is the same place from a few pictures back where she is going through the water on the quads with her son the night before. (Keep this picture in mind for her trip back.)
Kitselas Canyon is about a 45 minute hike down the tracks at a good pace. It's such a pretty thing. All of the Skeena River squeezes through this spot. The power is amazing. we climbed up on this little ledge and sat there watching trees come down the river.
I just love watching those trees coming down getting sucked under, bobbing up, swirling straight up in the air or sometimes not even coming back up at all.
When we got back, another neighbor stopped us and let us know that the road was probably too deep for the quad to get back through. Her husband wanted her to try, so my husband and another neighbor gave her a little advice for the attempt.
My husband has his waders on so offers to go in to see just how deep it is.
Yeah it's deep.
It is questionable, but just maybe she could get through. She decides to give it a try.
Here we go!
At this point I am getting nervous! Cant imagine how she feels as it give a few blub blub's. Will she make it? Will we need to tow her back out? Is she floating?
She's still going!
Looks like she's going to make it!
She's done what the men in the neighborhood couldn't or wouldn't dare to do!
With a triumphant wave she is off. Our thoughts were "Well, I guess that's the last time we will hang out until the water goes down."
So yesterday the water peaked in the river. This morning when I got up it was at about 11 meters at the gauge. Even though the water in the river has started to go down, the water in the yard continued to come up over night. I thought I would share some before and after pictures comparing yesterday afternoon to what the yard looked like this morning.
Looking out our door yesterday afternoon.
This Morning.
Yesterday afternoon.
This morning.
Yesterday afternoon.
This morning.
This morning.
Yesterday afternoon.
There is water on 3 sides of the house now. I'm surprised that our toilet still flushes since the septic field is covered in water. I am so happy that our basement is still dry!
My cat thought it would be a good idea to follow me around this morning. He hates to be packed and had to jump through water in a few places. Some places he refused to go though.
The back dip is really full. The good thing about this is, there were a few chicken tractors that were to heavy and hard for me to move and now that they are floating I can canoe out to them and move them.
The Chicken pen has water right up to the house in the back. I guess in some ways it's good I don't have chickens right now...
The water goes just about all around the chicken house now.
All and all we are faring well. We have food in the pantry, drinking water, can get up out of the water and have good neighbors, friends and family.
A couple people hoped on the passenger train last night to get out of Usk. I however plan on just staying and seeing what happens. My husband is talking about catching it in because he is missing work. We don't know when the Cable Car will be in service again. I'll be fine out here, I'm sure.
For now the river is going down. Hopefully in the next day or so the ground water will follow. The rives forecast was that it was supposed to peak yesterday but that if there is rain upstream it may come back up. There is still lots of snow in the mountains for this time of year, but I'm just hoping for the best. We've had cool weather since Sunday so that is a help. I'll probably just leave everything up on the deck and in the upper stories of the house for a while even if the water does go down, just in case, for who can say what Mother Nature will surprise us with.
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