Southern WI is getting hammered

[John Paul Sanborn]

Winds, rain, hail, flooding...'

So far everyone I know is OK

 

[lt1nut]

Luckily it stayed North, up by you, this time. I'll have to call my brother in Mukwonago and see how bad it was out there. Yesterday and today had some fun weather though, that's for sure!

 

[cjk]

We dumped out the rain gage wed night with 2" in it. Today we had another 3" in it by this afternoon and its still raining. The fields have standing water in them and the creek is running fast and brown.

I dont know about you guys but Im up for some sunshine.

We also found out the new steel roof leaks. Going to have to call the contractor monday. :censored:

 

[ClimbinArbor]

oklahoma and kansas are getting it too. the wind has been horrible this month. ive got some narly trees that im having to wait on, and everything keeps getting pushed back because of rain and wind. maybe ill be full on work this winter and not have to go hit a couple storms if it keeps this up lol

 

[Fuzly]

Kinda windy, but otherwise pretty nice "up nort"

Hope everybody stays safe down there

 

[Nailsbeats]

Word up Fuz, just got back from playing outdoor volleyball. A little wet on the court but great overall.

 

[Fuzly]

Same here bud, a few wet spots on the driveway but beautiful night overall.

Will have to give the relatives in Kansas a call this morning.

 

[cjk]

My property taxes might go up..

..as I have lake front property now. Looks like the creek is up about 3ft and spilling into the fields.

The new bridge is still holding for now....

And let me tell you, the mosquitoes are HUNGRY this morning in the woods.

 

[wdchuck]

We got it good around here, got to listen to a tornado go by us to the north, couldn't see it due to the rain/trees, probably 2 miles away, but unmistakable sound, slow moving too. Started out from Fort Atkinson and headed east.

Fields and water, resembles cjk's photos, our view to the north shows the Bark River flooded over, and despite the drain canals, plenty of new lakes have formed.

The traffic past our place yesterday evening was 10x normal for a saturday, so folks must have been getting rerouted due to that tornado.

Columbia county, and Sauk county seemed to get the worst of it though.

 

[Grace Tree]

I hauled cheese around the Monroe area for a lot of years and some of the localized storms that came through there would knock out whole fields and roads and bridges. Really amazing.
Phil

 

[grandpatractor]

Looks like you guys are getting it again this morning. I hope you are all doing ok. We'll be thinking of ya.

 

[HEAVY FUEL]

Southern WI is getting hammered ?

The packers aren't even playing yet! Seriously, I wish you guys the best.
We had 10 inches of rain in 1 day a few years ago, what a mess.

 

[wdchuck]

18" of rain per hour has been the measured rate, thankfully it doesn't last the whole hour, nature is kind enough to spread it out a little.

Can you imagine if this was snow? It would be like Pompeii.

 

[ClimbinArbor]

geez guys ive always wanted to live in the northland, but id be starving from not being able to work, the way you guys make it sound


hope everyone is staying safe

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

geez guys ive always wanted to live in the northland, but id be starving from not being able to work, the way you guys make it sound


hope everyone is staying safe

It's not that bad, in the winter it slows down. This one was the worst anyone I work with could remember, and some of them have 30+ years in the business.

 

[treemandan]

I finaly caught the the last 1/2 hour of Axe- men last night. It was the one with the storm and the one guy who ran ahead of his wife who drove his family out of some pretty hairy ****. He of course was wielding his big Husky base notcher like a ninja weilds a sword. It looked bad.
Of course this isn't the same storm you are talking about but in reality , it is.
When I started my little gig here I did in the middle of a 2 week power outage due to a storm. I was actually in the process of rebuilding the front end of my tree truck so it screwed me, but not really. I am no storm chaser.
Well I am but not for the money. I actaully only do some storm damage if I get paid to write a quote for any body else than the owner of the property hisself.
But when I see storms wreak the havoc in mass proportions where the lines are down, roads blocked by trees and people who need I feel like just doing it for free.

 

[omegajim]

Here in Washington county, yup, it's pretty bad.

Which is why I mentioned the other day to a guy at work "the best memorial day weekend I can remember."

Because Memorial day weekend is usually like this. Cold, rainy, flooding, tornado watch.

Farming out to be a real blast with this weather.

 

[cjk]

According to our rain gauge we have had 10" since tuesday. Radar shows more coming. We took a drive earlier today and some low lying roads are closed and lots of corn fields flooded. .

The farmers in the area are going to hurt a little. Late getting into the fields and now this.

 

[nrguenth]

We got it good around here, got to listen to a tornado go by us to the north, couldn't see it due to the rain/trees, probably 2 miles away, but unmistakable sound, slow moving too. Started out from Fort Atkinson and headed east.

Fields and water, resembles cjk's photos, our view to the north shows the Bark River flooded over, and despite the drain canals, plenty of new lakes have formed.

The traffic past our place yesterday evening was 10x normal for a saturday, so folks must have been getting rerouted due to that tornado.

Columbia county, and Sauk county seemed to get the worst of it though.

Ya, I'm in Columbia and we got hammered pretty bad... I've got ALOT of blowdowns. Big pines with 6' of roots in the air... But I really feel bad for the farmers. All around me the fields are underwater, and they were NOT raising cranberries...

 

[grandpatractor]

It's been raining often up here, we just haven't had any real big amounts luckily.