Storms and flooding in Pine Bluff!

A flooded park

A road leading out of a subdivision

Another flooded road

This church lost its steeple and carport!

The last two days of rain and wind have set rivers over their banks, bayous flooding into streets and houses and churches losing roofs and carports!

This is Mrs. Young reporting for the weather this week. The reason I am reporting is today school was closed due to wind and rain damage to our building. Since the students were supposed to report today, I am filling in and they will resume next week.

Currently we have received 28.58 cm of rain for October, and 190.5 cm of rain for the year! Both of these break the old records on file. Our average for Otober is 10.2 cm and our average for the year is 101.6 cm, a huge difference! Next week predicts sunny weather and we are looking forward to drying out!

Rain, Rain, And Deer hunting!

Courtney-Randy-Arkansas seriously has some weather issues, one day the sun is shining, and then the next couple days it isn't. We have had some flooding, the rivers are very high, and the levies aren't going to hold up much longer. And it is deer hunting season(muzzelloader). Rain is kind of bad for guns because your barrel on the gun could rust and then the power from the gun will make the barrel be ruined.

Let's Visit The Pumpkin Patch =D

We love pumpkins from Hardin Farm's famous Pumpkin Patch! The Pumpkin Patch is held every year beginning the first of October and closing to the end of October. They have schools and families come visit them from all over the state and even some from out of state! Hardin Farms grows over 60 acres of squash and pumpkin each year!!! The Pumpkin Patch is open during the week for school tours and open to the public on the weekends. Some fun things to do at the Pumpkin Patch are: hayrides to the patch, a corn maze, farm animal exhibits, goat walk in the sky, a haunted house, Native American Indian village & Pioneer cabin, painted pumpkins and crafts, face painting, and pumpkin patch store. So no matter what age you are, you’re sure to enjoy any day our Pumpkin Patch! =D

~~Tatiana And Becca~~

P.S.: The weather so far has been the same as the previous blogs. Lots of rain, but it's clearing up... hopefully....

Mr. Hardin Front of the Pumpkin Patch

Farmer's Digest

Hey:) Our names are Rebecca and Lindsey!! Here in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, it's been pretty rainy. When it's not raining or thunder-storming, it's just plain cold and cloudy. Cold for us is about anywhere between 50 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Here in Arkansas, we are just now getting in to the Fall season. We are just getting introduced to the low temperatures, so we should have all of our Spring and Summer crops in.

At this time of year, the farmers should be bringing in their crops. Because of all the rain, the farmers cannot bring their crops in. They can't bring them in until the weather clears up and the ground is dry. This has been a rough time for farmers who had not already brought their crops in before the rain. Farmers can only hope that the weather will get better before their crops are totally ruined.

By Micah Cottrell and Shawn Evans

Hi. Last night we had a big storm come through. The wind was blowing pretty hard, the rain pouring down. It was pretty bad last night. I play golf and it was not to bad while I was on the course.

We have deer down here and big ones too. Our bow season just opened yesterday. The deer like to move late at night. We have a game camera out behind our house. As you can see that picture was taken before the storm. It is a young buck (spike 2 horns). A good hunter would let that deer go. You should let that deer mature and get bigger horns.