Flashflood!

It rained most of the afternoon yesterday- just light showers. Then for about half an hour in the evening, the rain really came down. In that 30 minutes, we got 1.4" of rain. We had water running down the drive, roaring through the culvert (remember that tiny stream picture from a few days ago) across the barn paddock and into the creek. The creek quickly jumped its banks. In the time it took Chuck to put on his boots and walk down to the barn, the electric netting was inundated and being washed away. He managed to grab it and pull it back away from the creek before it got hopelessly tangled or torn to shreds. We closed the sheep and lambs in the barn for the night, worried that the ewes would try to cross the stream during the night to go back out to graze.
During the night, the creek returned to normal, and Chuck replaced the netting and the ewes are back out grazing. That's the advantage and curse of living at the top of a watershed. It floods quickly, but the water drains away quickly, too.