Flash flood down the East Bijou, thru the ranch washed out my road. Only an inch and a half rain here on the place. But the 3-5 inches they got upcountry took 24 hours to get down this far. County just closed the road south of me, don't know if the bridges are out, but lots of water coming over the road. This is the 3rd time in my 14 years here to wash out the road, and the most water of the 3. All the water gaps on my fences are long gone this morning. No flow yesterday at 1:00, halfway up the culverts at 2:00, over the road at 4:00. I took the truck across before the road collapsed, so I'd be able to get out if needed. Turns out to be a good move, but may be a couple days till the water is low enuff to wade out to the truck.....
Here's one from yesterday, right after I took the truck across, and just as the road started washing out. This creek is normally dry, and the last time it flowed was 2018....
Don, hate to see the road washed out. I remember crossing that creek/wash? when I was up there. I'd never thought it would get enough water to wash the road out. Bigger culverts maybe?
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That's the pits.... hard to spend a bunch fixing it when it only does it so often.... I have a buddy that had the same problem on his place.... we were able to get a few sticks of concrete Krail that they use when working on the highway and we built a makeshift "head wall" ..... seems to have worked the last couple years. Good luck.
