Broad Acres Farm Flood Photos - January 19th, 2005

This is the biggest flood I've seen since I bought the farm Fall 1999.  Peak was 58.5.  The river to the left is normally not only across the field, but down in elevation about 20 feet. It rose spilling over the road blocking the road to where we normally launch our boat (down the road, around the fence bend) and filled in the back 100 acres over 15-20 feet in depth toward the back.  Good thing for high spots.

Here is our main barn and bunk house. The barn and bunk house rooms are high enough above water but a good part of our driveway is about 18" under.

Here is the edge of our front yard, and our front field along the road.  The depth in the field is 3-5 feet further in the field.

This is the road in front of our house, and the corner of our yard. The road is now part of the river. Got inner tubes?

The river going down the road and our driveway. Lucky the Guest House is on high ground.

The farm house is almost the high spot on the farm. We woke at 1:30 am to sounds of water flowing under the house.

Here is the corner of our house with the water flowing through and under the foundation.  We woke to the sound of something like a bath tub draining.  We are in the river.

Good thing Saddie jumped out of the dog kennel last night about 1:00 am when it went under water. The water is flowing fast. Lacey, our small white house dog,  probably would have drown if she was in the kennel (unless she hopped on a piece of driftwood or something).

Our river field, just to the east of the cattle feeder. Also includes part of our driveway and the road.

Another view, taken from a more easterly direction. Along the right is the road we drive down to launch our boat to boat out to the main road. It's under water about 2 feet.

Our duck pond turned Bayou.  Pretty.

Does anyone see land? The calf barn is in the corner. We have 2 weanling horses in there. Lucky the calf barn is 3 feet higher than the water there.

Picture of the lake that formed beside our back horse barn.

Second picture of the lake that formed beside our back horse barn. 

Here is the yard in front of our back barn. Probably about a foot of water in the yard. Lucky the floor of the barn is 8" higher. Also 3 out of 4 of the rows of horse stalls are on about 18" of clay. We only had to move 6 horses across the road to higher ground.

Here are a couple of our cows enjoying their high ground on the critter pad. Lucky the Feds let the farmers build those critter pads 10 years ago or so.

The horse turn out behind the back barn (south east of the critter pad) looking toward Carnation turned lake front property.  The far horizon is where we would normally launch the canoe if we could get there.  Dry land is on the other side of the valley where we left cars out the night before.  Joe and Diana walked through the rapid spill over the road when it started to fill in last night around 6:30 pm.  She walked through in her high heals about a mile.  We got a little wet with water only to our ankles then. Perhaps it's 15 feet this morning in the middle. The road there is only 6-8 feet under.

Joe looking out over his back fields and horse turnouts. He's elevated on hog fuel.  It descends from there. Lucky all the horses are safe in the barn or up on the critter pad (or on high ground by the road).

Our gazebo where we got married in August of 2003. It's on some of the higher ground along our circular drive near the road.

Highest ground on the farm is the cattle feeder along the road.  We moved 6 horses here at 2 am. The other 50 or so horses are dry on high ground in the front and back barns.

Photo of the cattle feeder and horses, at least a foot above flood level (see the water in the road).

Shelly's Stallion, in the new stalls in the cattle feeder along the road. He's high and fairly dry.

Graph of the Snoqualmie River near Carnation around 3:00 am as it was peaking.

For historic purposes, here is the graph of the Snoqualmie River near the town of Snoqualmie showing the river flow during the flood.