After a relatively dry July 2007, the tides certainly changed in August — as of August 19, the Sak’s Woods Neighborhood Rain Gauge (located somewhere on Columbus Drive) has received a whopping 11.19 inches of rain for the month! Over the weekend of August 18-19, 5.21 inches of rainfall drenched Sak’s Woods, so I walked over to take a photo of Pheasant Branch Creek, which looked more like a raging river with rapids (photo above) than a small meandering creek (photo of one of the creek’s stepping stone crossing points). According to the US Geological Survey web site, Pheasant Branch Creek was carrying over 300 cubic feet of water per second around the time I took the photos — the average mid-August daily discharge rate for Pheasant Branch Creek is only about 2 cubic feet per second!
