We are in the middle of the January thaw. I t happens nearly every year, temperatures jump above freezing, the snow melts and things flood.. but this year, there’s note really much snow.. just ice.. It’s been near 40 degrees out ( a real heat spell for this time of year !) Actually.. it’s kind of nice to get the ice to melt.. it’s 3 inches think in places on roads, sidewalks,etc.. It’s as hard as concrete.. so the only thing to do is to wait for it to thaw.. and thaw it did !

The runoff and the rain we had have created some chaos.  The Barlows field is now a lake

 

Their road is a skating rink

Our back  yard is a lake as well

The river is way out of its banks.. here’s the woods across the street from us.

Upstream of the bridge rive itself is an ice jam about a half mile long. (literally, i ran it) . Well not really a jam.. as water is still flowing underneath

down stream of our bridge, the winooski is pretty clear.

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route 2 was closed all morning. Cochran and duxbury roads were down to one lane

Route 2 was really messy

the water was a couple of foot deep

I went for a few miles run to chek out the flooding. spied this guy lookign surprised.. and maybe a bit mad !

Our back yard lake was pretty deep as well… I couldn’t resist taking our funky 2 man kayak out in it..

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I love this place.. nature enjoys making us crazy 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me