Big Rain!

[Guest]

It only took 3-4" of rain to get these creeks to flood stage.

The big flood in 2011 had 3 of these rain events in a row, but the last one was a 6-8" rain.

Lets hope that doesn't happen,

Its only mid-April and there's a lot more rain going to fall in the coming weeks.

[Guest]

Osage Creek runs out of Springdale/Lowell/Elm Springs:

Its at a new record high:

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/uv/?site_no=07195000&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060

Spavinaw Creek is at record high levels as well:

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/uv/?site_no=07191179&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060

Little Sugar is at a record high for today:

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/uv/?site_no=07188838&PARAmeter_cd=00065,63160,00060

The White at twin bridges only jumped 3 feet, so that's a good thing.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/uv?cb_00060=on&cb_00065=on&cb_00010=on&format=gif_default&period=&begin_date=2013-04-11&end_date=2013-04-18&site_no=07048600

[kjackson]

A friend on Holiday Island said he dumped his rain gauge at six inches this morning, and we've had heavy rains in Eureka since then--at least another inch. But it's stopped raining now, and the radar looks clear for a while.

Fished the White yesterday running up from Holiday, and there were quite a few floating logs that were just below the surface. I'm guessing there will be a lot more now. It's going to be hazardous boating for a bit.

[jeb]

Wow, 6+ inches? Here in the PC area, it stopped at 3.5". I live on top of a hill and never went into town yesterday, but I hear the lower areas down the hill by the lake got pretty good runoff damage.