Flooding in Claremore, OK
4/20/2025 • Should have build an ark

   Big storm last night created flooding all over   

→ We live near Claremore, OK, fortunately on a hill.  
→ The bulk of this video is at our pond, which is at the bottom of the hill right by the road.
→ Near the beginning of the video you'll see me wading to get to a little bridge, which was partly under water, and then a section of the trail which was also under water.  That section was at the dam.
→ Then I turned and followed the road.  At a low spot, the water from the ditch along the road had filled over into our pond.  The water there came almost to the top of my boots.
→ I turned and went down to our second small bridge, which goes over the small creek that feeds our pond (only after a rain - it's dry most of the time).  → Then I went back towards the road so you could see how the feeder creek had completely overwhelmed our driveway, almost all the way to the road.
→ Then I turned back toward the pond, going through a gate to re-enter our meadow, ending up where I started, by the dam.
→ The last minute or so is of a small ditch that I made about 20 years ago to redirect runoff from the hill above our house away from the house.  About 20 minutes earlier, this had been a gusher, but now not so much.  But you can still see the flow of water, and that it was still coming off the hill.

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