Wow!

[steve l]

The gauge at Buck Hollow stands just short of 20 feet. Now that's a flood!

[Greasy B]

I wonder how many folks were gravel bar camping last night?

[steve l]

If there were any I suspect the number is right around zero right now. Wonder how this will get at the Alley campground as it gets down there. Probably a wash out there as well.

[Al Agnew]

The river peaked at 18 feet above normal at Highway 17, but is right now topping at 12 feet above normal at Alley. Reason? There is a much wider bottomland at Alley. The river is basically in a gorge at Buck Hollow, but has a much wider valley at Alley, which means more room to spread out instead of getting higher. That's still high enough to put it in the campground at Alley, but probably won't be extremely destructive there. That was high enough, however, to put it far over any gravel bar on the upper Jacks Fork. I wouldn't have wanted to be gravel bar camping last night!

[countryred]

That's up about 18' or so. The two rivers area where the Jacks fork and Current meet looked crazy too.

Our woods is only about 4 miles from Buck. Going down in a couple weeks, hope its back to normal and clear by then.

[newtroutfisher]

We were at the alley campground and had to leave around 6:25 this morning. Rangers came around and had everyone pack up and get out of there. River was not quite out of the bank but close and rising.

[mic]

Check out the read from the Big River. This looks like 20 feet in less than 12 hours.

[Al Agnew]

Yeah, and that day Big River was almost the only stream in the Ozarks that got a really big rise. Must have really dumped on the upper end of the river. Most of the other big rises came the next day, when Big River again came up but not so much.