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