Overnight Rains Caused Flooding

We had predictions of severe weather from the TV stations in Nashville yesterday evening, so Linda and I moved the truck, trailer, 4-wheelers, Mule and everything else, including the hay wagon full of mums, into the barns and sheds. Then we took the HHR and went to Albany for pizza. Just as we came home a little after 8 PM, a couple stopped and bought mums. We talked with them for a while and then came inside. Soon after, the rain began and the alarm went off on the NOAA Weather Radio telling us that there was a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for Cumberland County. I continued to watch TV through the night with warnings being scrolled across the bottom of the screen for areas in TN of possible tornadoes. At 1:33 AM, Cumberland County was put in the tornado watch area and the weather radio sounded the alarm. No tornadoes were ever reported by radar or observation, but the rain was heavy several times during the night. There was quite a bit of lightning and thunder too. When there was enough daylight, we could see the creek was out of it's banks and rushing through the fields.
 
Linda and I decided to walk up to the pond and see how it looked. The water was rushing out of the two drain pipes Imon had help me install several years ago and the pond was full of water. We came back to the barn and started the Mule and rode down to the creek to see how much debris was flowing by and how much had washed up in the yards.
   
The creek was raging, extremely muddy with lots of debris floating by, hopefully it will continue on and not lodge in the hay fields. Linda and I drove the Mule down the road to the mum patch. I was surprised with how well the patch had faired through the storms. There was hardly any standing water in the patch, but the entrance to the patch, near the old barn, was just about blocked by the creek flooding. Normally, the gate is fifty feet from the creek, also the implements I had placed in the hallway of the barn were under water.

We drove on down the road and looked across the creek at the hay fields and could see most of Larry's hay rolls were halfway under water. I'm pretty sure, he has lost most of the hay he cut and rolled in those fields. We came back to the house and I checked the rain gauge. There was about 4-1/3 " of rain in the gauge.
 
I had to go inside because it began raining again.