Rain, rain.......go away!

It has rained almost everyday for the past week or so.....don't get me wrong, I know we need the rain. But yesterday we started seeing the down side to getting too much rain.

The ground is completely saturated and not only does that make for a mud slide of a driveway......

but it also allows trees to get uprooted much easier. This is bottom of an oak that is still leaning across our driveway. There was another tree that landed across the driveway but by the time I got there the bulldozer had already pushed it out of the way.

See that's the big oak leaning ominously overhead. This part of the driveway is downhill also so that makes it even more scary. This all happened yesterday during the storm that lasted about 20 minutes.

Here's another sad case. This is the peach tree in my backyard. Two of it's big limbs just snapped right off. They were loaded too so we don't really know if this is a result of the storm or the weight of those beautiful peaches. Either way, they weren't ripe yet so the peaches were a total loss.
Moral of this story: Too much a good thing can be bad news.