Memorial Weekend

After a difficult week it is nice to get away for a few days. What was even more awesome was to find that Lake Arbuckle and the surrounding ponds and streams are full or almost full after a 2-year drought. It seemed that the Oklahoma City area was getting lots and lots of rain this year - somewhere around 17" a couple of weeks ago and the Sulphur area only had received about 7". Now two weeks later the city is up to 19" and Sulphur is at 13". Wow.

On Thursday morning we had lots of storms rolling though so we waited those out and then headed south to Cedar Blue. Driving through the Davis area we saw what looked like show drifts in the ditches which turned out to be piles of hail from storms on Wednesday and Thursday. Hail and very high winds had hit the area so we saw lots of tree limbs and leaves on the ground but not much other damage thank goodness. That afternoon we drove through the Chickasaw National Recreation Area and down to Lake Arbuckle and were pleasantly surprised to find water in Little Niagara, the lake had risen nearly 3 feet and all the ponds were full and overflowing. 

This photo of the lake shows far less 'beach' then what there was two weeks ago which is a good thing.

Here is water flowing over one of the dams in the park that has been bone dry.  After two years it was great to see and hear the water flowing.

John and Bailey are standing on top of Little Niagara and water is flowing.  It will take a while for the pond below to completely fill up but it's a start.






 This is the fishing dock in the pond near our RV lot.  Two weeks ago it was just about dried up and the dock was on dry ground.  Wow - now it is over full!







 Finally, the buffalo with their babies were in the viewing area in the park.  I have been trying to find them for our last two trips down and no luck.  There are four babies and many of the others were babies last year.





We ended the day with a beautiful sunset. 

I want to thank all our veterans and soldiers for their service to our country on this Memorial Weekend.  Thanks to you we have our freedom.  Our prayers continue to go out to those that were affected by the storm in Moore, Shawnee and other areas in Oklahoma.