Torrential rain and I’m stupid

[Smalliebigs]

4 hours ago, tjm said:

If it rains hard upstream from Quillback, by the time it gets here (6-7 air miles) it can be a 4-6' high 100' wide wall of water, doesn't always happen but it has. Been livestock and cars washed away by a creek that normally runs ~100CFS. The feeders for these little creeks are hundreds of miles of normally dry ditches.

I have never experienced a rise this fast before so I was ignorant as to what could actually happen. My dad lives right near this corridor and is a weather junkie to the extreme and said just to the North West of where I was received 4 inches of rain in 40 mins, not sure if that’s true but his rain gauge on this Site he uses said this. This little valley I was in is very steep on both sides with a Bluff on one side for about a quarter mile. Where I swam to was a flatter area and just was filling like a lake hahaha like I said now I know, I had never seen a stream do that before

[Gavin]

Dave, Ozark waters flood allot. My fishing friends from MI are always amazed to see home appliances stuck in tree tops. A “Big Flood” on the Au Sable or Manistee is a 1-2’ rise. Lots of flat land & sand up there. We fish narrow river valleys surrounded by limestone & granite. The gravel is just a leftover from the clear cut lumber industry of a bygone age.

[tjm]

20 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Ozark waters flood allot.

yes, they do.  And we get crazy rain patterns where it can rain 6''' on one side of a hill none on the other. 

[FishnDave]

Thanks for sharing your experience, @Smalliebigs !

[jdmidwest]

Irondale?

[semble]

@Smalliebigs Scary stuff, its no joke the way our creeks can come up!  Glad you made it out ok.

[Jerry Rapp]

7 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Irondale?

that would be a good bet.  I just went over the Big on the old road between Desloge and Bonne Terre and it was pure mud. Not way high, just very muddy.

[jdmidwest]

Its a canyon there and I have seen it rise tall.  The drainage above bottlenecks around that area and spikes the gauge quick.  After that, the river bottom opens up and spreads out.

[pjlures]

Scary ...so glad your all right. We need a second chance now and then. 

 

[MOFishwater]

glad you made it out ok. lost a friend in high school when he and a buddy were out in a pond prowler on a farm pond with a spillway which drained down a STEEP rocky cut. not sure what they were thinking but they got too near the spillway and the flow was more than the trolling motor could fight. they both jumped off a side and only one of them made it to the shore. still think about that all.the.time...easily avoidable. 

never underestimate the power of simple water.