Crazy Flood Stories.... Danna's and Car Lot

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Good point. 

 

[cnr]

On June 2, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Gatorjet said:

But, when you live, or build a business in an area such as parts of Eureka, Pacific, and Valley Park along, and South of I-44 that has never flooded until the geniuses with the CoE built levees to protect other  areas what are you supposed to do. Especially when you were there long before the levee was built.

True. That's why I worded it as a "known area that repeatedly floods". The situation is dynamic and getting worse due to man's poorly planned intervention. Our area sits in the confluence of two of the biggest rivers in the country. We cannot ever contain that water volume. Let's start reversing the years of building-up in those areas so future generations are not affected. 

[Gavin]

Add Brentwood to your list. Deer creek has wrecked a bunch of stuff down by Feather-craft & Trainwreck over the years.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Does anyone else think that Fall Creek flooded in the way that it solely because of that coaster ride being put in ?

A very similar thing happened to my folks after the city cleared a path on a large hill for telephone poles ... our creek flooded the worst it ever had with the same amount of rain, something like 4.5 inches in one hour.

I would imagine that the clearing for the coaster ride created a rushing of water that before never went through like that before. Imagine all the heavy equipment that was used to flatten down dirt and the concrete anchors used to hold down sections of the track.

Truly a recipe for a disaster. If I owned that restaurant I would surely look into talking to the Branson Public Works Dept.

[Gatorjet]

I doubt very seriously if the small area cleared for the Mountain Coaster had much effect on the flash flooding of the creek. I remember a similar, but no quite as serious flash flood on that creek before the coaster was built. The difference, an inch or two less rainfall in a short time.

Cooper creek where the van with five people in it was swept away isn't anywhere near the Mountain Coaster.

Just a lot of rainfall in a short time.