Thanks, Gabz.
Yup.. draining lakes. We had a flood a year ago last Spring. The lake rose to 3' *over* our dock (that's 8-10' above spring lake levels) and that was after just 5-6" of rain upriver. Thank goodness we live on a bluff. It would have to rise a great deal more to reach us.
I'm terrified for N.O.
It seems all I have done all summer long is pray it would stop raining here. We've got a creek as the north border of the property and in summer it is generally not more than a trickle.....not this year.
The bank is higher on our side, but with so much rain this year it has flooded my fields I don't know how many times. I lost my entire garden - it turned into a swamp and what I didn't lose because of water I lost to the deer.