Old Man Winter

Our power just came back on after a 12 hour outage. From what I'm hearing on the radio I'm sure many of you will not read this for some time because of your own power problems. On top of everything else we are flooded in. Many of you that have visited the pottery have asked about the small creek you cross to get back here. Well, today its a large creek. Think we had about 4 inches of rain yesterday. We took our rain gauge in after 3 inches because we didn't want it to freeze, but it continued to rain hard for sometime after we took it in. Don't know what the river looks like, but I would say this is the biggest flood in about 4 years. Maybe this will help flush out the river, but I'm sure its going to give Ameren fits with its efforts to clean out the lower reservoir. Stay warm.