June 2015 flooding pics

[Dougie]

Thought I would post a few pics of the river I took after work today.

If you have pictures post them here if you can.

I have included shots I took from google maps to help show the magnitude of the devastation.

The first place I could access the river was at Nelsons Bridge, it is located between Battlefield Mo and Delaware town access.

For what its worth the discharge rate at pic time was 40,700 cubic feet per second and a gauge height of 21.6 feet

First without flooding

Today

The second place I could get a peek was Rivercut Golf Course

I am both amazed and devastated by this event. Prayers to all effected

[slab slinger]

Went to look at Shelvin Rock Acess today and from the looks of the water debris line it almost made to Shelvin road (Blacktop) the entire 1st and 2nd parking lots and entire gravel access road was under water yesterday.

Went to Deleware Town Access yesterday and the 2 gravel parking lots were under water. Springfield lake and below the dam was mind blowing with the amount of water. Never seen anything like it.

Should make for some top notch fishing when it returns to normal. High water makes new holes and fills in some good ones. The river is ever changing thats what keeps me on it.

[riverhyker]

When I moved here 30+ years ago there were so many deep holes on the James....I hit a "Pothole" while fishing with my cousin and completely disappeared, my cousin said and my hat was floating...lol....but I came up with rod and fish. Because of the water levels I got a mental shot of my childhood dream from a tv show i used to watch as a kid (either Field and Stream or Sports Afield)....God, I caught this 16 in smallmouth while standing in the river w/o drowning (new to me as our rivers in OH are a Heck of a lot deeper...ha, ha, ha).

I was standing in waist deep water, but, it jumped up between me and the sun and shook and I could actually see the rainbow in the water droplets coming off of the fish. I just looked at my cousin and said, "I am home..." I can't speak for the whole of the James, but those holes are about non existent any more.

What he didn't know is that I had spotted a 6 foot black snake in a tree hanging over the river at Shelvin Rock, two in a tree he got hung in and one in a bush he stuck his hand in to get his lure....he was petrified of snakes....but, you know.....the fishing was so good that he got past that. (I had a ringneck snake believe it or not from MO when I was a kid in Brooklyn, didn't find that it was from here until after I moved here, I was 13 and tried to find a pretty snake my mother would accept).

Thanks for the pics....my son can't believe that it was that bad when I told him that we could be washed out this late in the year.