Are You Ready For 696.2?

[mixermarkb]

696.2 is what the corps webpage says... That's like a foot higher than the 2008 levels!

Wow!

[BrianS]

I'm really thrilled and done fishing for the year! I think I just might move down to Lake Amistad, TX. No high water and great fishing.

To top it all off it doesnt rain 5 out of 7 days like it does here. Anyone else getting as sick of rain and storms as me? You would if you would just have lighting strike your house ...sigh...

[mixermarkb]

I was hoping and praying for my friends down at Theodosia Marina that some of the rain that was forecasted wouldn't happen and that they lake would keep dropping. 2008 was really hard on them, because they lose their gas storage at around 689, and it's hard to keep a Marina in business that can't sell gasoline. Let's hope it let's up soon so maybe the corps can get a handle on things before summer drags on too long.

I never thought I'd see 695 again, and to top it 3 years later is insane. The Corps has to have changed some policies on the way they operate the white river system. Mother nature is angry, yes, but there has to have been weather close to this between 1952 and 2008.

Idk, it's all crazy. Hope the storms that NOAA are predicting for today don't cause more deaths like the Joplin storm.

[Ham]

NO, I'm not ready to ses 696. I'm freaking ready to see partly cloudy with a 10 MPH wind and 20% chance of rain. I'm ready to see 676' in BSL so I can launch a boat and catch some fish.

[Champ]

Amistad can be great fishing at times. But I'd rather deal with some rain rather than bullets flying around my head from the drug dealers.

[Wayne SW/MO]

but there has to have been weather close to this between 1952 and 2008.

yea, but rain doesn't soak into roads, parking lots, or house tops. I don't how much difference that makes, but it has to make some.

[taxidermist]

The COE did a good draw down of Bull Shoals this past winter. but but Table Rock did not have a huge draw down. During the late winter we saw points and creek bottoms that have not seen daylight in many many years.

See other post in White river

[Fishin Hodge]

They used to draw Bull a good 10 foot low, often more, in the winter and now days we are lucky to see power pull for more than a week at a time. I think the corp does a crappy job of managing the lake level on bull. I know it is the last lake and designed to be the catcher, but they need to drop it in the winter so we aren't dealing with this every year and I'm not talking 3 or 4 foot low.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I know it is the last lake and designed to be the catcher, but they need to drop it in the winter so we aren't dealing with this every year and I'm not talking 3 or 4 foot low.

You have to remember that the generators run on gravity and it takes a good head to turn those monsters. I don't know what minimum is, but I do know there is one.

[Col Ron]

They used to draw Bull a good 10 foot low, often more, in the winter and now days we are lucky to see power pull for more than a week at a time. I think the corp does a crappy job of managing the lake level on bull. I know it is the last lake and designed to be the catcher, but they need to drop it in the winter so we aren't dealing with this every year and I'm not talking 3 or 4 foot low.

Your memory is short,,,Bull was 9 feet below normal pool in February/ March. No matter what the Corp does it is always wrong. I have no attachment to them at all, I do know this one was on all the rain we received, period, no management team could have prevented this one. In 18 days I had 15 inches of rain in my gage in Lakeview. Unpreventable.