First flood of 2013
I've stopped reporting
on all the little floods --- it barely impacts our lives nowadays when
the creek hits the top of its banks. But when the water starts
flowing out of the creek and into the floodplain, the power of water is
too inspiring to ignore.
Our movie-star neighbor
wants to help us build a swinging bridge and Shannon got us started on
a zip-line, but the honest truth is that I doubt either of those
projects will ever come to fruition. The reason? I really
like being flooded in.
As a side note, the
analytical side of me started wondering if there was a pattern to our
floods. I'm sure I'm missing a few that didn't make the blog, but
here are the big ones I've recorded:
- March 6, 2004
- December
10, 2008 (small)
- December
17, 2008
- January 7, 2009
- September
26, 2009
- December 10, 2009
- August
20, 2010 (small)
- March
1, 2011
- March 7, 2011
- January
12, 2012 (small)
- March 4, 2012
- December
28, 2012 (small)
- January 16, 2013
Isn't it interesting how
the dates seem to cluster together? The second week of January is
flood time, and so is the first week of March.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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10-15 years ago, a week of rain like this would have put the water at least five feet higher. The Sinks must be really clean these days.
From the floods I can remember over the last 30 years, almost all have occurred Feb-April. Last big Sinking Creek flood was March 02. Water was around 6' above the bridge rails.
Even totally random data will still look clustered to us. This is called the clustering illusion.