Rain!

[BredMan]

Not looking good for the Tri-Lakes Area. We were deluged tonight with several big showers, flooding at least our road in several places.

Not looking good for the lakes either. If you hadn't noticed, they didn't drop Beaver Lake much at all and with this rain, I'd think they'll open flood gates to keep the water from coming over the dam - my guess anyhow.

That means MORE water in Table Rock and Bull Shoals on TOP of all this runoff.

Glad there isn't another rain behind this one... or is there?

Left your place Thursday at 9:30 AM and drove 4 1/2 - 5 hours directly with a monsoon all the way up I-44. 12-15 wrecks along the way, ditches full of water, many spots on the highway with heavy water, and the creeks were definitely rising. Wipers were at full speed much of the time and my dear wife was doing some co-pilot functions off and on the whole way. What a miserable drive to say the least and I was so glad to arrive at home. I could only think along the way how this much rain would really mess things up again down there.

3 1/2 inches in the rain guage this morning but on a better note, I actually saw some blue sky this afternoon.

[Wayne SW/MO]

The lower end of Taney is muddy. Bull Creek and Silver are running muddy, but Bear is high and clean for all the good it does. The James is flowing through Springfield lake and the Finley appears to be high and muddy.