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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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The season is over. The torrential rains wouldn't quit today and Jones County, Iowa is a flooded mess. The town of Monticello is nearly cut off from the rest of civilization. The creek past our weighoff site in Anamosa blew out the remaining historic stone retaining walls and undermined a street. Emergency workers are preparing for a very fast, high flood on the Wapsipinicon River throughout the county. Creeks have washed out gravel roads all over the county.
A large dam upstream from our patch overtopped and blew out the emergency spillway. I suspect management problems with the dam, but I can't comment any further at this time. The deluge flooded our patch. When I got home all of our pumpkins were floating. It will take at least 3 totally dry weeks before we could hope to get any out of the patch. It is doubtful if anything will survive to the weighoff. Anyway, our tomatoes are lost. At least we got around 60 quarts canned before the flood. We can't sell any of the jack-o-lantern pumpkins that were in the flood water (some of the water ran off a dairy feedlot, yuck!) The electric fence is down and shorted out: hopefully it didn't blow out the charger. At least it should have drowned any mice in the patch (you have to look on the bright side)
I will post a picture of the carnage as soon as I find my download cable. That will be my final diary of the season, unless a miracle occurrs and we get something to the weighoff. I will try to post some photo gallery pictures of the weighoff, as I am expecting some big things in October.
Best of luck to the rest of the growers. Hopefully we took all of the bad luck and everyone else gets a personal best!!
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