Literal and metaphorical reflection pervade this place of poor drainage where a once-thriving farmstead has been given over to the rising groundwater and its expansive floodwaters. Water tables and stream flows have been growing gradually in much of the Sandhills of Nebraska for the last couple decades, at least. A check of satellite imagery over time shows ponds forming and enlarging in recent years across what used to be center-pivot irrigated lands on and near this farm. That process has accelerated recently. Like a similar abandonment I found several years earlier in North Dakota, the aged state of its cladding reveals that this house was left to the elements long before the water encroached in the last year or two.
4 N Rose NE (4 Jun 20) Looking W
42.2461, -99.5266Abandonment Reflections
Literal and metaphorical reflection pervade this place of poor drainage where a once-thriving farmstead has been given over to the rising groundwater and its expansive floodwaters. Water tables and stream flows have been growing gradually in much of the Sandhills of Nebraska for the last couple decades, at least. A check of satellite imagery over time shows ponds forming and enlarging in recent years across what used to be center-pivot irrigated lands on and near this farm. That process has accelerated recently. Like a similar abandonment I found several years earlier in North Dakota, the aged state of its cladding reveals that this house was left to the elements long before the water encroached in the last year or two.
4 N Rose NE (4 Jun 20) Looking W
42.2461, -99.5266