{"id":545,"date":"2009-03-25T04:37:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-03-25T04:37:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T04:37:36","slug":"coming-home-to-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/coming-home-to-big-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Home to BIG Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-547\" title=\"Flood\" src=\"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d-dam-26-web1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Flood\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d-dam-26-web1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d-dam-26-web1.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The closer we got to home the harder it rained.\u00a0 We parked the truck and trailer in the driveway of our house around 2:00 am.\u00a0 Oh Yeah &#8230; I missed the drive a little.\u00a0 The heavy trailer was stuck in the ditch and blocking half of the road.\u00a0 So I got a jack and some heavy boards and managed to get it back into the road.\u00a0 The second time I got it into the drive! ! !<\/p>\n<p>When we went to the mill the next day and the Big Raccoon Creek was flooded.\u00a0 It had been the biggest flood ever recorded in this area ! ! !\u00a0 Fortunately for us the Cecil M. Harden Reservoir (Raccoon Lake) had been built upstream in 1959 &#8211; 60.\u00a0 So, we were protected from most of the water.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-548\" title=\"Log Jam\" src=\"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d-dam-32-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Log Jam\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d-dam-32-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d-dam-32-web.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Unfortunately, it had washed in a bunch of trees, logs &#8230;. etc.\u00a0 But, a few days later it started to rain again and the water had no place to go but the creek.\u00a0 This time the water got even higher than the first time.\u00a0 It washed out a few logs but washed in a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Now let me back up the story a bit.\u00a0 In Feb 2008 we had a big flood.\u00a0 It washed in hundred of trees, logs &#8230;etc.\u00a0 They were stacked like Pick -Up &#8211; Sticks from the dam to almost the concrete bridge.\u00a0 We (me and several local friends) worked from early April until the end of May clearing the dam and mill pond.\u00a0 Then Karen and I went to Mich.\u00a0 the first of June.\u00a0 When we returned it had filled up again.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Roe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closer we got to home the harder it rained.\u00a0 We parked the truck and trailer in the driveway of our house around 2:00 am.\u00a0 Oh Yeah &#8230; I missed the drive a little.\u00a0 The heavy trailer was stuck in the ditch and blocking half of the road.\u00a0 So I got a jack and some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridgeton-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetonmill.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}