Paper work day/Flash flood in the bee yard

Today and tomorrow are my paperwork days for this week.......YYYUUUUUUUUKKK! I hate paperwork. So pretty much a boring day for the beekeeper's wife. The thing is that when the beekeeper has the wife helping in the yard for the last month she is about a month behind and now overwhelmed. I did get a good start today. But I'd rather show you some pictures of a day that we had a couple of Fridays ago. We had worked over 12 hours for the day and had just come home and cleaned up to go out for some supper(neither one of us was going to do any cooking). That was when the rain that had been coming down all day decided to rain a little bit harder, we had a little flash flood. We then started our trek to town and when we received a phone call from a friend......."Your bees are Under Water!" What??? He said, "Your bees are under water!" So we turned the car around went back home hooked the truck and trailer up as quickly as possible and headed for the Nucs that we had just made up the day before. It was bad. Some hives only had a few inches left out of the water. We moved all the hives to dryer ground and as we picked up each pallet the water would cascade out of the hives. And then so would the bees mad as heck. I was surprised that they lived. Of course the uncapped brood did not make it, but the surprising thing is that the capped brood were able to make it. Who would have guessed. I was shocked that the honeybees themselves made it. Especially after seeing all that water just pour out of the hives. I am sure that they would not have made it if it were not for the friend who noticed them. It was as though they climbed to the ceiling and hung on for dear life. They are so smart. We have put bees in this location for the past 20 years and have never had a hive be under water here. The funny thing is the hives were moved maybe 20 feet away and the next morning were confused looking for their home. By morning the water had receded and noticing the confusion we moved all the hives back to the use to be flooded area and within a short time the lost bees became settled. Amazing isn't it.