When things finally thawed out we got rain and rain and more rain. All this led to flooding. The Iowa river closed the convenient ways into Marshalltown, causing Greg to go through Garwin to highway 30 to get to work. Crews worked hard to keep 30 open by building up the shoulders to hold back the water and pumping water out of the median over the road and into fields. We also had to deal with water in our basement. We had water in places we had never had it before. The ground was so saturated that it was coming up through the cracks in the floor.
Wolf creek is usually a small quiet creek that runs north of Gladbrook and is just a nice little creek. I was coming back from Reinbeck one day and stopped and took pictures of a not so little quiet creek. Cattle were stranded out on little islands of ground in all the water.
I am always in amazement of what can happen when it rains and rains.
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