{"id":10465,"date":"2024-06-24T14:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:25:38","slug":"the-heavy-rains-flooded-our-small-town-of-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/06\/24\/the-heavy-rains-flooded-our-small-town-of-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"The heavy rains flooded our small town of Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those 7 to 10-inch pouring rains made things around here sloppy but in the small town of Cook, “our” town of 600, things took a turn for the worse. The Little Fork River, which flows through town overflowed its banks severely, flooding out most of the town. In parts, there was more than 3 feet of water in streets and yards, pouring down basements and entering lower homes. It was awful! The county had out huge rescue vehicles, evacuating folks and checking on others. Our little movie theater, The Comet, had water over halfway up the seats. Being a small town, folks helped those impacted, filling and hauling sandbags, moving furniture and appliances to higher spots, and bringing in drinking water.<\/p>\n

Today, the water’s gone down enough that most of the streets and yards are normal but there are appliances, soggy furniture, and other debris on the street edges, waiting to be hauled off to the landfill. It’s going to take folks a long time to recover. And more rain is on the way. Wow, what a spring!<\/p>\n

Our gardens suffered a few washouts, here and there, and are still very soft and wet. I’ve been trying to plant our last peppers but am worried we may not be able to get in the North Garden in time to plant our pumpkin crop that we sell to the local nursery, The Watering Can.<\/p>\n

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Despite all, our flower beds are cheering us up with their colors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the flowers continue trying to brighten our days. The peonies and iris are blooming with fantastic colors. Unfortunately, the darned deer came into the flower bed by the driveway, munching off all of the Asiatic lilies, just as they were budding out to bloom. But the front yard is all fenced and they haven’t breached that so far. The peonies and daylilies there are safe and growing larger by the day. We really need those colors, right now.<\/p>\n

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Luckily, deer don’t like iris!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those 7 to 10-inch pouring rains made things around here sloppy but in the small town of Cook, “our” town of 600, things took a turn for the worse. The Little Fork River, which flows through town overflowed its banks severely, flooding out most of the town. In parts, there was more than 3 feet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}