White River Flooding

[Guest]

My wife was lucky tonight. She crossed the west fork bridge around noon today, but on her way home after dark, it was under water with no caution tape. She turned around on the Molly Wagnon bridge & went around. There should be RR crossing lights that go off at a certain gauge height to warn drivers as they approach deadly flash floods. 

15ft on the west fork gauge seems to be the magic number. 

[Quillback]

Glad to hear your wife stayed out of that water.

Just got back in from walking the dog and it is still raining.  Looks like Beaver has gained close to a foot of water in the last day, probably will come up some more on top of that.

[Guest]

I fished around hickory creek today & it rained the whole time. 

[J-Doc]

Was this the 412 bridge?

[Guest]

West Fork of the White below lake Sequoyah 

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/nwismap/?site_no=07048550&agency_cd=USGS

[Champ188]

11 hours ago, J-Doc said:

Was this the 412 bridge?

LOL, now that would be quite the sight.

[J-Doc]

12 hours ago, Champ188 said:

LOL, now that would be quite the sight.

I meant the smaller bridge out way past Sonora.  Where the Kings River and other branches cross. 

 

Not the one way up in the air.  That would be Noah's bridge level. 

[Champ188]

Ah, OK ... don't get out there much and didn't think about that one. I too had visions of Noah's ark in reference to the big bridge.

[Guest]

Has anybody fished beaver in the winter when it tops the dam? Has that ever happened? This El Nino is going to be the strongest we've seen in decades. 

[J-Doc]

Not I. Would be quite interesting yet scary for people down river in Eastern AR when the spring rains come.