High-Water Mark at Gettysburg...Literally

[infomanpa]

You know that Gettysburg has had a lot of rain when the high ground at the Angle is under water. Sheesh.

 

[Hussar Yeomanry]

Given that image of what is high ground then I imagine that Plum Run and some of the areas around it are no go areas right now...

 

[Jimklag]

Given that image of what is high ground then I imagine that Plum Run and some of the areas around it are no go areas right now...

Willoughby Run where the Iron Brigade fought is even lower ground.

 

[kel1985]

Wait until the stuff hitting Pittsburgh today gets there tomorrow!!!

 

[Stony]

It's rained here in eastern NC almost everyday for the last 3 weeks.

 

[infomanpa]

Given that image of what is high ground then I imagine that Plum Run and some of the areas around it are no go areas right now...

You would think that, right? In actuality, the area around Plum Run was only a little more marshy than usual. I suspect that the Angle area is increasingly getting "puddled" after a hard rain. I think that with all the tourists who stand there it's causing the ground to rut and form the low spot that my picture shows.

 

[donna]

We had so much rain last night. I thought we have to build an ark.

Guess many getting more rain this year than other years.

Of course, California would love rain. So I will not complain.

 

[Stony]

Got 4 inches yesterday.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

It rained the day before I was in Gettysburg a couple of weeks ago. Some spots were rather marshy and water logged. ON the bright side the woods, and other growth looked beautiful!

I think the whole country is having weather issues this summer. The weather in NYC is quite tropical these days. The daily deluges that keep producing local flooding are getting ridiculous. And it's been doing nothing for the humidity either - it makes it worse!

 

[infomanpa]

Got 4 inches yesterday.

Got 4 inches, today!

 

[Mrs. V]

Dry here today. Got a bit of a Thunderstorm at Hale Farm yesterday. I've never seen so many people break camp so quickly! It was the end of the day, so it makes sense. Showers have been very spotty, mostly moving south of my location. Temps have been all over the place, and the humidity has been high enough that we have been running the air every day. Usually we can open windows a couple times a week..not this summer!

 

[pamc153PA]

I was out on Friday and Saturday. The thing that struck me is that the battlefield is still green: usually, by mid-August, the runs like Plum Run have dried up, the marshy places like the base of LRT have dried out, and the areas along the trolley path through the Triangular Field that are little wetlands in the spring are totally dry. This year, all those things are still wet. And the unmowed grass in the fields like the Wheatfield is really high! So definitely not a usual summer in Gettysburg.

 

[jackt62]

A few years ago, the annual reenactment had to be rescheduled to August because of heavy rains in late June and early July that inundated the field.

 

[2nd Dragoon]

Here on the left-coast in San Diego our total rainfall for the Year is 3.19 inches for 2018. Has not been this dry since 2001

 

[AnnaLee]

We have been getting a lot of rain also but Lynchburg had a dam which almost burst. Thank God it didn't--many people were evacuated.

 

[1stMN]

Send some of that rain westward...we're so dry in Minnesota right now!

 

[infomanpa]

And the unmowed grass in the fields like the Wheatfield is really high! So definitely not a usual summer in Gettysburg.

When I was there last week, some of the grass was over my head and I'm 6 feet tall!