The warm days have opened the Bulkley River or in our case the Litlle Bulkley River - the start of the big salmon river. The big curve downriver is still frozen though and the water is flooding the farmer’s fields - on top of the snow!! Our yard is half clear - near the house is sand and grass but near the fence is still almost 18 inches of compressed snow/ice. Behind the greenhouse the water is pooling, th eground is already saturated. And the hillside is still covered in snow - the northside of our road and property. There is floodwatch everywhere in our area from Burns Lake to Prince Rupert - all th erivers ar enext to highway 16 so all the communities are in the flood zone.

The bridge near the start of our road.

Lots of water flowing!!

Close to the road

The water is already at high level

The water is pooling - nowhere to go as the ground is saturated

And still more snow to melt - where will it go?

And behind the greenhouse - the water is pooling on top of the snow. The ground is already saturated. The snow covered the ground before it had a chance ot freeze and insulated it all winter long. It doesn’t look good. We are getting our evacuation plan for the dogs and me ready. Will keep you posted.

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