Greetings and welcome!
This was an interesting week for weather. Monday we got the rebound from the snow and cold over the weekend and it actually went above 50. It was a very windy day though, and there were a couple of the punky dead popples and birches that got taken down. Healthy trees did fine.
The warm and sunny day humbled the snow pack, and the driveway is almost clear and fairly firm now. That is a dramatic change from what it looked like Sunday. I haven’t been north of C where it was still winter last week, but it is probably still like that now.
We were expecting two plus inches of rain late this week and even had flood watches out. That did not work out according to plan, the storms went south and east of where they were expected. We did see over 1/2″ of rain Sunday night/Monday morning, and a little yesterday and today, but not anything like where the storm hit. A little south of the state line they had 5.5″ of rain yesterday/last night. According to the USGS gauge by Kosir’s we are at about an inch for the week so far.
The Peshtigo River is on the rise. People going whitewater rafting this weekend will be in for a very good ride. The river is flowing at about 550CFS, I’d guess at about +8 or 9. It is on an upward trend, and the wet week will help. The big push of melt water has started, and it only goes up from here.
There are some events this weekend.
There is a meat raffle at Fisher’s Camp being put on by the old owners Glenn and Debbie as well as Sally and Mark. It is Saturday and it starts at 2pm.
There is also an indoor mini-golf tournament around Athelstane. Here is a poster bit from Facebook.
The Curve Inn is having their monthly birthday party for people born in April Saturday night, and this month’s theme is goofy hats. That could get interesting.
There are things that I am missing here or haven’t covered yet, but it has been a day of surprises, and I have to go and deal with the most recent one. Have a good Thursday and thank you for visiting!
RJB