Yet more flooding

 One of my major volunteering efforts is mapping storm tides as part of Wetlands Watch and their Catch the King. I've written about this a few times in the past including back in 2017 when we set a world record for the most contributions to an environmental survey.

  This year, the astronomical high tide for September and October are pretty close so we did a "Wet Run" for the September tide and the full Catch the King event in October. Early in the week during September we had a steady northeast wind that piles up water down here in the Southwest Chesapeake Bay so the tide even higher than the astronomical predictions. I was able to get out multiple days to do some mapping around my area. 

At one of our local boat launches, the parking lot was cut off by the flooding. Water crossed the road approaching the parking lot and the ramp area itself was flooding to mid-calf level. 

Flooded parking lot. There is two set of boat-trailer parking
rows underwater between here and the river

Close up of the kayak launch that usually goes down to the water

There is a boat ramp somewhere under that water. Again the floating
dock is above ground level

Luckily, this stayed in the nuisance / minor level so it mainly flooded open areas and yards and didn't do much damage to property. At the first place above, they did fail to secure the trash bins fisherman use. That unfortunately dumped a lot of waste and debris back into the bay. Events like this can really impact local water quality negatively.

Finally, I set up my camera to record the flooding in the marsh behind our house. Notice the animals making use of the recently flooded areas. This is a phenomena that we often see with herons and other animals feeding high up in the marsh during and after high tides. 

It is a week later as I write this and yet another storm is passing by and bringing more water. I'm about to head out for some more mapping.