The Flood No One Predicted | Homestead Vlog | September 20, 2024

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  • @CindyMobley
    @CindyMobley 3 месяца назад +29

    When we were kids my daddy wouldn’t allow us to ever to swim in a creek with out him and mama, he always told us that a creek is always changing, oneday it’s shallow and thd next there will be deep holes where a sandbar was, please always be careful around creeks when swimming you can drop off in a black hole and be gone, daddy was a fireman for 35 yrs, he also had seen many drownings!

    • @kennethvaughan8195
      @kennethvaughan8195 3 месяца назад +7

      Daddy told you right. The creek I fished and swam in growing up, places I always caught fish in, deep holes are now dry, sandbars are washed out and are now deep, it’s crazy ! I look at it like it’s kind of like life sometimes. Nothing is as it seems to be. Dad and mom have made their trip to heaven. I catch myself walking around on this place now steadily looking up toward heaven and I’ll say daddy, you are right again. Our dads were or are brilliant men !

    • @MZDenise72
      @MZDenise72 3 месяца назад +3

      That’s smart!

    • @peggierigsby7692
      @peggierigsby7692 3 месяца назад +4

      I'm in Georgia I sure wish we could get a little of that rain,it's very dry here.

    • @caroleosborne3379
      @caroleosborne3379 3 месяца назад +5

      I'm glad your house is on a hill! Wow!!! The kids have a wonderful playground by the creek! I always wanted to live by a creek. We had a ditch by our house and we would swing on tree branches to the other side and play Tarzan!!! Great job Andy getting the net untangled and back up! I love everything on your channel...just discovered it this summer! Megan, love your cooking videos! Wish I lived next door to you! Carole from West Tennessee ❤

    • @kimcwhite6509
      @kimcwhite6509 3 месяца назад

      There was a dip down road creek crossing to my property that would have gates closed after a big rain! I got used to knowing that it took about a day for it to run down from the hills to reach that road crossing. If I forgot and went that way, I'd have to drive about 15 miles all the way back around to get to my place!

  • @dhanson4698
    @dhanson4698 3 месяца назад +16

    So Glad everyone is OK. If anybody likes rock hunting, now is the Time. Grateful for the Sharing.

  • @picklehead68
    @picklehead68 3 месяца назад +10

    A lot of people in the South are capable of sustaining their family and friends with home grown produce like you guys do. There are those (many of the same ones who like to poke fun at us "uneducated" hillbillies. We had a governor like that) who aren't fond of our tenacity and how we face problems and solve them ourselves

  • @kellymurdock5982
    @kellymurdock5982 3 месяца назад +9

    When I heard in the news that the Carolina's were getting hit I pulled up the weather map and said "well, ...Andy and Meagan are sure getting it. Hope they are ok!" For what it is worth...I would suggest you assume that this is going to happen a lot more with increasing intensity. Every ditch you have, deepen it. Think about trenching around that creek garden to at least divert some of the water around it. Maybe don't put staple crops in the creek garden. Even widening/deepening that creek is an option. There is not an easy way to manage 10-20 inches but you can mitigate the effects. Where I am in Ontario Canada we have not had the amount of rain that you have BUT we are getting increasingly more it seems each year. I am busy digging ditches, raising beds, and preparing as best as I can. All the best! Love what y'all are doing and sharing!

  • @denisestewart7181
    @denisestewart7181 3 месяца назад +8

    Build a burm around the uphill sides of your fruit trees to keep the water from washing them out. Burms can help redirect water in many ways. 😍

  • @sandysmith8567
    @sandysmith8567 3 месяца назад +9

    Crazy amount of rain, but hopefully, this will renovate your pastures and hayfields. Glad you did roof maintenance!

  • @mousemeat1352
    @mousemeat1352 3 месяца назад +9

    Thank the Lord, you only have minor damage, most important you are all safe. ❤

  • @celticfiddle7605
    @celticfiddle7605 3 месяца назад +6

    Wow! I am surprised the weather reports did not know this storm was going to be so bad.
    But there is a lesson for us all here. Like you said you are glad you got up your potatoes and did this and that before the storm. To successfully homestead requires taking the weather seriously and getting chores and repairs done when the weather is good for it.😊

  • @lalatotheworld1671
    @lalatotheworld1671 3 месяца назад +8

    I was out praying, I’m in NC and the huge tree in my yard was blowing, I’m glad y’all got the sweet potatoes when you did, blessings!!!

  • @picklehead68
    @picklehead68 3 месяца назад +7

    On a positive note, those babies of yours are such a sweet blessing, what good little helpers. They make my heart smile ❤

  • @RiverlifeinAlabama
    @RiverlifeinAlabama 3 месяца назад +6

    Wow. I would enjoy looking for arrowheads after the creek changed like that. We have a lot that washes up here in these creeks around here in some parts of Alabama where the Indians used to live.

  • @lucindasutt7365
    @lucindasutt7365 3 месяца назад +4

    Tiger is a working Dog. She takes her job seriously. 2 years, happy and content, she was sent to the right home!

  • @EmbracethechaosPortugal
    @EmbracethechaosPortugal 3 месяца назад +4

    Good job on rescuing the electric fence!

  • @sandybrown9175
    @sandybrown9175 3 месяца назад +4

    Wow, I bet y’all have some gold in them rocks gold travels with the gravel!!!👋❤️🙏

  • @jerrylee690
    @jerrylee690 3 месяца назад +5

    Well,I enjoyed your video, you know water can do some more damage. But yall got your food in before the flood. Praise God. Yall are all safe.and the kids have a new sandbar. ❤

  • @MynewTennesseeHome
    @MynewTennesseeHome 3 месяца назад +4

    Wow, we haven't had any rain in forever.

  • @darianroscoe1017
    @darianroscoe1017 3 месяца назад +3

    Good to see you're all fine. My dad (originally from Alabama) used to say weather forcasters don't know their a** from a hole in the ground, lol, and I agree. Two weeks ago it was supposed to be 102º here in Southern California and it turned out to be 112º in the shade of my patio where the thermometer is. That type of error went on and on on for days that ended up 110º. They do a fine job most of the time if they can see the storm or hurricaine coming right before their eyes on a computer screen, otherwise forget it. I do better listening to my old bones.

  • @ashleywelborn9644
    @ashleywelborn9644 3 месяца назад +5

    Pumpkins must have looked like Fish Bobbers out in the Field

  • @cecilvinson1213
    @cecilvinson1213 3 месяца назад +6

    Moving water is really powerful.

  • @afdraftsrmandy3176
    @afdraftsrmandy3176 3 месяца назад +4

    Very reminiscent of the hundred year flood we had in SC years ago. Saw water flow in places it had never been in our lifetime. Glad y'all are ok!

  • @mariebishop7598
    @mariebishop7598 3 месяца назад +4

    Well, we prayed too hard for some rain for you all! Praise God no severe damage or injuries. Enjoy your videos so much.❤️🙏

  • @ranns160
    @ranns160 3 месяца назад +8

    So glad y’all are ok.
    Praying for y’all!

  • @kimcwhite6509
    @kimcwhite6509 3 месяца назад +1

    Wow, that's amazing! I'm sorry it got your garden. It looks like some good rock picking after that rain! What a disaster that was!

  • @marilynwitherell186
    @marilynwitherell186 3 месяца назад +5

    Glad everyone is safe.

  • @tommathews3964
    @tommathews3964 3 месяца назад +2

    The power of nature, especially water, has always fascinated me! Mother is MIGHTY!

  • @JoyceFrye-vx3nl
    @JoyceFrye-vx3nl 3 месяца назад +3

    We are about 2 hours south of you and we got between 8 and 9 inches of rain. Water is a scary, powerful thing, not surprised it tore up your fencing and moved everything around. Glad there wasn’t damage you couldn’t fix. Love your videos! Oh btw, we got almost 2” of rain on Wednesday night, the 18th.

  • @Sneakers103
    @Sneakers103 3 месяца назад +2

    Thank goodness you pulled all that gravel up last Spring!

  • @barbaraslayden2277
    @barbaraslayden2277 3 месяца назад +4

    Here in Virginia it rained 2 days straight. Didn't get to see the harvest moon.

  • @rebeccarice1140
    @rebeccarice1140 3 месяца назад +4

    We had a historic flood in Kentucky the year of 2022, people lost homes where it had never flooded before , lives lost ,sad time for a lot of our folks here in Kentucky

    • @pamwalker6284
      @pamwalker6284 3 месяца назад

      606 here…. Just hearing the word “flood” makes me sick…😢

  • @GinaPitzer-tp3cc
    @GinaPitzer-tp3cc 3 месяца назад +3

    We live in south west Ohio and we’re in an extreme drought. Wish you could share. ❤ Glad you’re ok. Blessings.

    • @lauraklein6405
      @lauraklein6405 3 месяца назад

      @GinaPitzer-tp3cc we are in east central Ohio and our creeks and streams, wells and springs are dry! The houses in our county are hauling water but the county water supply comes from a lake that is dangerously low as well. It’s crazy!

  • @marthawalton8370
    @marthawalton8370 3 месяца назад +3

    Wish we could have gotten some of your rain. We just got wind from Francine. Glad y’all are ok!!❤❤❤❤

  • @thomasjohnson-g9d
    @thomasjohnson-g9d 3 месяца назад +2

    glad ya'll are ok, I've always heard there was gold in North Carolina, I would pan around under those rock piles

  • @kathyb8540
    @kathyb8540 3 месяца назад +4

    We're in a bad drought where i live in middle Tennessee..too much rain in one place not enough in another.

  • @GeorgiasGarden
    @GeorgiasGarden 3 месяца назад +3

    We could have used that rain in our part of Texas. It’s been like three months since we have had any rain.

  • @sandybrown9175
    @sandybrown9175 3 месяца назад +2

    We found over an ounce in our creek in the last couple years, just panning by hand and a pan

  • @PoorMansHomesteadCanadaBC1961
    @PoorMansHomesteadCanadaBC1961 3 месяца назад +3

    Our Creek on the back of my dad's lot the creek is called Morrison Creek which is our last name because it used to go through all our property it used to wash the bank out towards my dad's property he ended up having to plant bamboo all along the creek side so it would stop washing the bank out and every time it came up of course our basement would fill up with water because that's where dad put the drain from the basement right to the creek but as a kids we used to love it because giggle down in the basement and play boats in the water in the winter😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @susanalberts776
    @susanalberts776 3 месяца назад +3

    Good afternoon thanks for sharing love you lots Susan from South Africa 🇿🇦🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @tedamos
    @tedamos 3 месяца назад +3

    Andy we live in Lexington we got 2-1/4 inches from it

  • @shellakers10
    @shellakers10 3 месяца назад +2

    WHAT!!!??? I'm so relieved to see you're still above water! This is crazy! But you guys make work look like a fun day! 😂 I think I might even love the work if I COULD have a creek in my yard (or close by). 😊

  • @duncand5148
    @duncand5148 3 месяца назад +4

    Well I’m just glad you’ll and the kids are ok. Love and admire your attitude about the whole thing. In everything and every situation, you’ll always give thanks , remain claim and stay positive. Such wonderful people. 👍🏽 Also glad you’ll were able to salvage your netting. That stuff ain’t cheap.

  • @PeggyLiles
    @PeggyLiles 3 месяца назад +1

    Raleigh got at least 4”, which is a lot for us. Thankful for raised beds!

  • @pauletterichards4755
    @pauletterichards4755 3 месяца назад +3

    It’s getting very dry in NW Ga

  • @overlookfarm4183
    @overlookfarm4183 3 месяца назад +3

    Just over a inch here in Fancy Gap. Wow! That close and yall got hammered

  • @Sneakers103
    @Sneakers103 3 месяца назад +1

    Francine!Ya'll!!!

  • @charlacarson473
    @charlacarson473 3 месяца назад +2

    I'm glad you all are doing well and that the sweet potatoes were already up!

  • @Debbie-bg3mo
    @Debbie-bg3mo 3 месяца назад +2

    You're exactly right. We're an hour south of you and I had no idea all that was going on.

  • @debraknapp1577
    @debraknapp1577 3 месяца назад

    I chuckled out loud when Andy referred to the tropical storm as " Little Debbie "!😂😂😂

  • @oldnorthstateoutdoors2002
    @oldnorthstateoutdoors2002 3 месяца назад +3

    We got about 3 1/2 here in Burke County but we needed every drop. Didn't get near as much as you all got. Prayers for those at the coast of NC.

  • @Melissa-pt2ik
    @Melissa-pt2ik 3 месяца назад +3

    Hey it’s good that you could save the pumpkins from the deer getting in the garden and them eating them

  • @keithbrigman5179
    @keithbrigman5179 3 месяца назад +2

    Some of our worst storms have happened when the weatherman was not calling for it. Glad yall didn’t have a lot of damage. Don’t you just love that electric netting l have a love hate relationship with that stuff 😁. I was just telling my wife that I wish we could have a slow rain so I could set on the porch and enjoy it don’t have that anymore

  • @pamela.2890
    @pamela.2890 3 месяца назад +2

    I feel for you. I’m in Florida and after some hurricanes the clean up was big! Once, it was a lot of flooding, people ran motor boats down the street 1994.

  • @dannyhannah2152
    @dannyhannah2152 3 месяца назад +2

    Glad y’all are ok and that nothing was damaged beyond repair, looks like it made your creek beach better

  • @ChrisAlred-mn5if
    @ChrisAlred-mn5if 3 месяца назад +3

    Thankful you all are OK. What a mess at the creek. 😊

  • @kimhayden5244
    @kimhayden5244 3 месяца назад +3

    I’m down near Southport in Brunswick co…..20 +inches. Roads are still closed…it’ll be a mess for awhile.

  • @Sneakers103
    @Sneakers103 3 месяца назад +2

    So... An act of God picked your weeds??? And fertilized your garden??? Ya'll are blessed!!! We love your channel!!!

  • @dmartin4295
    @dmartin4295 3 месяца назад +2

    That was a lot of rain! Glad it wasn't too damaging. ❤️

  • @amyjo987
    @amyjo987 3 месяца назад

    Hey y'all, I'm from the foothills of NC but more west than y'all, Polk & Rutherford Co. We got the most wonderful steady rain. I hate that y'all got such a deluge! I only found y'all about a month ago & I can't tell you how much I love your content & your personalities....by the time I wanted to garden & can & do all the domestic things....my grandparents were all gone to glory. You both sound so much like my grandparents. You both sound so much like I sound! We're just as country as cornbread & truly feel like y'all are part of our family. Thank you for taking the time to document every day life. I have regretted not getting more info from my Papa & my Nanny about gardening, canning, sewing, maintenance etc....yall have really filled the void & helped to educate me on the things that I was too dumb to learn when I had my Grands with me. God bless!

  • @karenfromnj3104
    @karenfromnj3104 3 месяца назад +2

    Thank goodness you are safe Could have been a lot worse. A few years back we had the same situation in NJ. Weather forecast only called for a few inches and we got 12 inches within a few hours. Way too much water !

  • @Texan_Gal
    @Texan_Gal 3 месяца назад +3

    The end times y’all 🙌🏻

  • @peggetennant
    @peggetennant 3 месяца назад +2

    I found this to be very interesting. I couldn’t take my eyes off what you all did. Thank you for sharing your videos.

  • @Melissa-pt2ik
    @Melissa-pt2ik 3 месяца назад +2

    I had seen on the weather channel that ya’ll were going to get some of the rain off of that hurricane but I had no idea that it would have been that much rain for ya’ll because ya’ll were a good ways up north from where it had came into the coast of Louisiana and the coast of Mississippi but I am just glad it didn’t do too much damage to ya’ll and I am glad that they said after it hit land that it had lost a lot of it’s strength

  • @EmbracethechaosPortugal
    @EmbracethechaosPortugal 3 месяца назад +1

    We had the first storm of the year here too,wash outs everywhere but no major damage thank the lord! Grateful for the rain to help other parts of Central Portugal that have been ablaze this last week

  • @deborahh2165
    @deborahh2165 3 месяца назад +1

    Wow that was crazy. Great job getting the netting back up with all that debris! I cant believe all the rocks at the creek. That water was flowing hard!

  • @normamccomas9272
    @normamccomas9272 3 месяца назад +2

    Thankful y'all are safe!❤❤🙏🙏xxoo

  • @Tinysteading
    @Tinysteading 3 месяца назад +2

    Glad the animals and apple trees didnt wash away. How are the ones you just planted on the strawberry hill

  • @LFish143
    @LFish143 3 месяца назад +2

    Need to put some sand bags in needed spots.

  • @donnabennett1256
    @donnabennett1256 3 месяца назад +2

    It’s a good thing you got those sweet potatoes up! It has rained a flood here in the middle of the state too. I’m originally from the coast and they’ve have salt water flooding everywhere.

  • @studerje
    @studerje 3 месяца назад +2

    You should metal detect that rock bed by the creek.

  • @AnnaWeeks-sp9fu
    @AnnaWeeks-sp9fu 3 месяца назад +4

    Hundred year flood, some of my folks live on a 100 year f.ood pĺàne off the trinity river in southeast Texas and have seen 7 of them 100 year foods in the past 30 odd years! God is in control! We got this with His help! Just keep loving them babies! Blessed be,!

  • @chickenmama4670
    @chickenmama4670 3 месяца назад

    We need rain in Maryland. I’m glad you did not have serious damage to your home, animals, plants or buildings.

  • @Susan-n3o3e
    @Susan-n3o3e 3 месяца назад

    Wow Andy that was a big mess and you got it all fixed up. That’s amazing thank the Lord you guys are all okay that had to be a lot of force and that’s what water can do a lot of damage. Another great video. Thank you. Enjoy your weekend 🙏

  • @lesterwicklein717
    @lesterwicklein717 3 месяца назад +2

    wow, hope all is well!

  • @SimplemanSimplelife-m4s
    @SimplemanSimplelife-m4s 3 месяца назад

    Lots of water kids. I have a creek behind my house and it’s full of my brush cuttings. Well no more, the creek bank is nine foot in places and that creek bed is clean as a whistle lol! Everything has washed to my swamp and out to county. Never seen that much water in my 50 plus here… love them babies….

  • @MarkWYoung-ky4uc
    @MarkWYoung-ky4uc 3 месяца назад

    I'm just glad you hadn't just plowed up your creek garden. That much water would have washed the soil away as deep as it was plowed. It was heavy here Tuesday evening for a while but when it got to central Stokes, it just set up and kept riding the front one storm after the other. Andy if you need any help with the clean up, let me know and I will be glad to come help y'all.

  • @sandraward116
    @sandraward116 3 месяца назад +1

    ..Andy needs to be careful digging around those trees 🌳 and logs..after all that water 💧 there could be a bed of snakes ... 😮
    ..hope the peas survived...

  • @karnaxiom1635
    @karnaxiom1635 3 месяца назад

    Thank God you guys live on top of that hill!
    We live about 200yards from a river and have had water in our second floor. What a nightmare!
    I’m so thankful that you are all safe and the animals are safe as well.♥️

  • @toneyjohnson8910
    @toneyjohnson8910 3 месяца назад +1

    Glad you got the fence fixed. And it was nor worse than it was.

  • @LFish143
    @LFish143 3 месяца назад +2

    Praying 🙏 for all.

  • @deltorres2100
    @deltorres2100 3 месяца назад +1

    Wow
    That was a lot of rain. I guess that tells you what you gotta clear out and what you gotta prepare for you never know what’s coming, right

  • @oops8985
    @oops8985 3 месяца назад

    Storms from Hurricane Francine hit last week here in West TN and after 5 mos of drought it brought 14 or more inches of rain in 3 days and we usually get about 3 inches in total for the month of September.
    Unbelievable how much damage from flowing water where it's never flowed before.
    After mos of drought where everything had turned to dust all the dust washed away in the flow and in some places on flat ground around 5 inches of soil are gone!
    JUST CRAZY!
    Weather manipulation is REAL.
    We need to stop them!

  • @russelltackett4779
    @russelltackett4779 3 месяца назад +1

    I live in Northeastern Kentucky by a creek that has flooded before seen it wash cars and buildings down the creek now we are in a bad drought

  • @Tammy-s4v2o
    @Tammy-s4v2o 3 месяца назад

    There's gold in that creek. Looks like corn. Fun times ahead.

  • @charmainevandiford6622
    @charmainevandiford6622 3 месяца назад

    Now you got a bunch more coming. This next one is going to hit hard up your way. Prayers lifted for This storm.

  • @PatPace-hk9yd
    @PatPace-hk9yd 3 месяца назад

    Great video. I wasn't sure Andy could save the fence. He's handy to have around. Good job Andy.

  • @wassabuck
    @wassabuck 3 месяца назад

    When I was younger we lived on a rather large stream in Maine. It over flowed the banks in spring thaw most years. Boy the garden we had beside it grew like crazy years it did . May find a heavy harvest next year . Hope it all works out.

  • @pecangrovems
    @pecangrovems 3 месяца назад

    I hope they are wrong they're saying me and you could get that again in the next couple weeks. Glad y'all fared well.

  • @picklehead68
    @picklehead68 3 месяца назад +3

    Might wanna climb up some sturdy trees and run your wire through some kind of ring to raise it up from that low water level so it doesn't get swept up in another one off weather episode. With all the crazy things we've seen lately, a person just doesn't know what might happen next. people may chose to believe it or not weather modification has existed since Vietnam (operation popeye) might wanna keep an eye on chemtrails being laid out. We've had some nutty looking "clouds" here in Arkansas in the past couple of years. I've got screenshots. Rows and rows of bread loaf looking formations going for miles. If you watch the chemtrails for long you'll notice them spreading out in a coil like pattern before the entire sky is overcast

    • @SherryPetree
      @SherryPetree 3 месяца назад +1

      I've seen some very odd things in the Arkansas skies since 2020

  • @barbaraweber3084
    @barbaraweber3084 3 месяца назад +1

    Nice clean up job. Everytime a storm comes through here we have to start another burn pile of brush so many limbs come down. Makes me want to lose all our trees and do without shade in the yard.

  • @sandralovegrove2805
    @sandralovegrove2805 3 месяца назад +3

    Harvest your pumpkins 🎃

  • @michaelpardue2400
    @michaelpardue2400 3 месяца назад +2

    Wow Hope all is good .Sending Prayers for you Y'all

  • @olddawgdreaming5715
    @olddawgdreaming5715 3 месяца назад

    So glad you're safe and lots of the water that hit there will soak in and help you all. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

  • @CrazyArt-r5e
    @CrazyArt-r5e 3 месяца назад

    Wow y’all really had some water moving through there. Glad you’re all ok. I got caught in a flash flood one morning in our holler coming home from work and was trapped between water rising in front and behind me. No cell signal to call anyone and the water kept rising. I was terrified. Thank goodness a neighbor came along and got me out of the situation. I can’t imagine what that looked like during the overnight hours at your place. It sure did some damage but glad it wasn’t worse. Stay safe ❤ (hope the kids enjoy their new sandbar).

  • @WhatWeDoChannel
    @WhatWeDoChannel 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank goodness you got those sweet taters before the storm ⛈️!

  • @Rcart024
    @Rcart024 3 месяца назад

    9 inches of water in 24 hrs is roughly a (once in 250 year rainfall event)
    "NOAA ATLAS 14 POINT PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY ESTIMATES: NC"

  • @RedLloyd-r4i
    @RedLloyd-r4i 3 месяца назад +1

    Man yall did have a wash out we didn't get no heavy rain it mist us

  • @sandrawyrick
    @sandrawyrick 3 месяца назад

    TIGER is the SWEETEST!!!

  • @KateBogdenxx
    @KateBogdenxx 3 месяца назад +2

    ❤❤❤

  • @francesgannon8990
    @francesgannon8990 3 месяца назад

    Wow!! So grateful you are all safe and secure! Tremendous amount of work you are ALREADY tackling!! Your property has incredible resilience from that storm!! The creek/ river change is amazing. Your family sure has a positive optimism always grateful! Love watching Jacob and Maggie in the creek, but seeing you and Meagan surveying your land for storm damage really shows a godly bond of confidence you will overcome the storm!! ❤

  • @HollyWaggoner-o6m
    @HollyWaggoner-o6m 3 месяца назад

    God’s timing is always perfect isn’t it? You got the crops in as you needed because you listen to His guidance! Love your videos from northwest Arkansas!

  • @francesgannon8990
    @francesgannon8990 3 месяца назад

    Such ingenuity figuring ways to get your fencing and electrical wire restored!!