Mud season

Mike and I walked in Ridgway State Park today.  It's still difficult walking in the neighborhood, although getting better.  I read the day before yesterday that state water managers are already executing plans to avoid flooding during the massive snowmelt to come.  We saw that for ourselves because Ridgway reservoir is being drained a lot in preparation for that.

You'll see on this map that Ouray is in the Gunnison drainage but very close to the San Miguel etc. drainage.  I'm surprised that those two have higher percentages than the Yampa and White because the snow totals in Steamboat Springs have been outrageous.  I guess Crested Butte and environs were outrageous enough to bump us up.

JP (20) called me last week concerned about what he was seeing on his outdoor cameras.  Mike and I walked over and discovered that a huge slab of snow/ice had slid off the roof and taken out a small section of the deck railing.   Barb (3) texted me yesterday that their Starlink antenna came off their roof so they're not getting uploads at all.  We are still waiting to see what our roof glacier on the back of our house is going to do.  I think it'll be one of two scenarios:  it'll just melt away slowly, or it'll come down in one piece and break all four windows in the back of our house.  Bets?

 

Best water in the world


So lucky to see a crane among the ducks and geese

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