Welcome to May. We've had GOK how many cubic miles of rain in the past month and everything is flooding. The South Nation river, which you can just barely make out in the first picture, is a highly meandering stream draining a particularly flat bit of the Ottawa River Valley. Most, but not all, of its watershed is farmland. Luckily, most people have sense not to build beside it, for the reason shown. This temporary lake just happens to be a minute's flying time from the '94 landslide that got me started in aerial photography in the first place. Go South Nation!
The Ottawa River itself is full of photos like the second. The trailer park *was* built on the river-side of a wetland(ish) area, the actual bank is a few hundred meters past the top of the photo. Predictable results.
And, yes, it was snow today and not rain.
CWC
