water water everywhere

Phase one of the evacuation of the bottoms proper has been accomplished in one week. I've heard it called the Mengelwood flood of 2010. That's where the old cemetery is that my friend the count has photographed so often. His family owns a large piece of the rich big muddy farmland that is currently flooded out the wazoo. If you ask me, it's Hale's Point that's the problem here. All three of the major rivers in the western part of Tennessee converge at a single spot in Lauderdale county where the Forked Deer and Obion join at the Mississppi. The same thing happens in Paducah with the Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee rivers hooking up for a giant wetlands project waiting to happen.

We went out early this morning toward the giant kudzu piles that eat up the landscape between the Mississippi and Chisholm Lake. Let's just say there won't be much crab legs and steak going on anytime soon because the only people we saw were in a boat going to check on their house and take pics for validation to the insurance companies that they pay each and every year. The rest of 'em are just screwed. Our water is up in the ditch toward the only road out of here so we're watching the landscape with every trip out. I'd certainly hate to get stuck here on the lane and have to miss my 5 day week at the sawmill. That would just be WRONG.

We saw a wild turkey up close today, something that is a normal sight to me around here but only from a distance. The rising water flushes them and all the other critters out toward civilization. The deer are running too. I noticed a lost armadillo road kill, most surely an AR/TX immigrant with a persistent natural prone to wander to the more temperate spots. Poor dude will never know how freakin' HOT it can get here in July.

All is well. I'm outta here ^j^