Pictures After the Flood

A rose bush covered in buds.

A daylily covered in mud.

That muddy SE corner.

The crocosmia and glads are still coming up/

Working my way through iris bed..

...after iris bed,

High Water Line

The flood left it's mark!

The grey is where the mud remained when the water receded.

Some Late Bloomers

The garden is pretty empty of iris and the daylilies have started blooming, but a few iris are still hanging around.

'Action Packed'

'Conjuration'

'Howler'

 And a few unknowns...

It Got Worse Before It Got Dark

Last pics before sunset.  The rain had stopped, but the creek wasn't done rising.

Videos Around Flooding Mendon

Here's a video in our back yard.

After surveying our yard we walked down the street to watch fireman pumping out basements.  This is horrid for our neighbors.  We luckily are just far enough away and high enough (if only) to have a perfectly dry basement.


Then we headed around the block.  This is under the bridge on Route 64.

All the way around on the other side of the ballfields there is a footbridge. The banks of the creek are usually 2 or 3 feet.  Not today.  And is anyone missing a port-a-potty?

You Said How Many Cubits?

It rained about 2" today in a spot with us at the center. That would not have been tragic, except that the ground was already saturated thanks to rain 10 of 13 days of June.  It's been about 10 years since the Irondequoit Creek flooded the little fields behind us.  We thought the redesigned fields rearranged the flooding patterns.  They did. But this was just too muck for them.

This is about where things were 10 years ago.  But the creek wasn't done rising.

 

While Koda went for a swim in our backyard we were lucky.

Neighbors had the help of Mendon's finest to pump out basements.

If there was any parking in the rear of this place it was for boats.

More later...

I Need a Dry Day

It was a great season in the iris garden, but it has come to a screeching halt. Wet spent flowers are toppled all over the place an the moisture has riddled the foliage with leaf spot and worse.  There's a whole lot of rot and I suspect more than a few borers.

I need a dry day or better yet a dry week to get out there and start cleaning up the mess.

No pictures of this!  Ick.