It is spring, right?

[donutsweeper]

So far four inches of snow have fallen today!  And it's still snowing!  Stupid Minnesota!

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[rustydog.livejournal.com]

We've been having rain and flooding here (today is gorgeous, though some of the rivers are still rising), which makes me wonder, what do y'all do when all your snow melts? Does it all happen at once? How do the rivers handle it, do you get flooding every spring?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

to some extent its a gradual melt, over Feb and March on the warmer days it'll start to melt. Some is absorbed by the ground, but a lot does make its way into the lakes and especially the rivers. There has been massive flooding (every decade or two) but for the most part the rivers can handle it.

I drive over the Mississippi all the time. There is this island right near the bridge- sometimes (spring especially) it's completely underwater and others (usually August) it's this scrub filled grassy island nearly half the width of the river

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

to some extent its a gradual melt

Oh, that makes sense. Also that the rivers can mostly handle it - I guess if they've been getting it for millenia they would probably have natural systems for it.

Whenever we get snow here, even if it's deep (for us deep = past your ankles) it will all melt within a period of about two hours, so if it were a LOT of snow, months worth, in that period of time, that would be a lot of water at once.

It's interesting! I notice similar rises and falls in river levels here between spring and late summer, since we usually have drought in late summer.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

There have been MASSIVE floods though. 1996/7 was a record snowfall year and then there was a thaw early- in March, but then things froze and it snowed more in late march and april. The ground was too cold to absorb water and there was so much there was tons of flooding. Especially the Red River, which is unusual because instead of flowing South it flows north. Ada and Grand Forks were basically underwater that year

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

We had hailstones. It doesn't snow much in Liverpool.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ooh I hate hail- we get it only during the summer here. Driving in hail is scary. MN gets a LOT of snow during the winter- just not usually so late in March

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

When we do get snow it can be at the oddest times of year... like the middle of June! It doesn't stay for very long, and the weather has always been a bit freaky like that.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

eeep- snow in June- I couldn't deal with that!

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

You too? We're getting swarms of the stuff in Wisconsin, at least the bits I'm in.

I like snow, but enough already, eh!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I like snow- in december. And it makes the cold in January worth it... but by now I'm tired of it. And I really don't want to shovel because I know it'll melt soon anyway, but if I don't shovel the mailman will complain.

*sigh*

stupid midwest

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Heh. You gotta love spring.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

love. yeah. that's it...

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Did I mention it's STILL snowing. Has been all day. Nothing's really accumulated, but I want to see the sun damn it!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Weird.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I bet it'll make for interesting egg hunts tomorrow.

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

LOL...probably.