Happy Valley High School baseball and softball field flooding
Published 8:43 am Tuesday, April 23, 2019
The baseball infield grass was the only thing above water during Friday's flooding on the field.
Star Photo/Ivan Sanders Water pours onto the field from a stream that runs parallel to the field on the third base side.
Star Photo/Ivan Sanders The visitor's dugout has water surrounded the lower portion of the dugout.
A tractor on the softball field sits partially submerged from Friday's flash flooding.
Happy Valley's softball field is covered with water with only a portion of the infield still above the flooding.
The concession stand and batting cage were no match for the floodwaters from a nearby stream.
The fields at Happy Valley High School looked more like a lake than a playing field Friday as the second flooding event this weekend covered the fields once again.
After suffering severe damage to the baseball and softball fields from a February flood, the last thing the school’s administration and Happy Valley Warrior teams needed was an encore.
Unfortunately, that was precisely what happened on Friday while the county school system was out for spring break as heavy rains that began early Friday morning and continued throughout most of the day sent floodwaters onto the fields once again.
Crews have been working to take down the chain-link fencing that surrounded the fields after the initial flood.
