It’s coming your way.

[dtrs5kprs]

9 hours ago, Dutch said:

1:43 pm 924.31 and still rising.   I'd like to see some pictures if anyone gets down there. 

Pic of the ramp and dock at Schooner (hoo boy, that's a story unto itself). That was at about 630 after we trailered the barge. Sure doesn't look like it's stopping at 925.

Helped one of the BFL guys avert disaster when we gave him a ride to the flooded out dock this morning. He was parked and unhitched at about 924.

[Quillback]

926.  They are easing up a bit on the Beaver release, down to 30K CFS.  Beaver is now below 1130 (top of flood pool).

[dtrs5kprs]

3 minutes ago, Quillback said:

926.  They are easing up a bit on the Beaver release, down to 30K CFS.  Beaver is now below 1130 (top of flood pool).

They needed to run it last week. As usual. So much for their new pool policy.

[Quillback]

16 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

They needed to run it last week. As usual. So much for their new pool policy.

Don't get me started.

[Bill Babler]

Its looking to me like a 927 crest, but may go a bit higher. Its really slowed down but still climbing. 

[Devan S.]

2 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

They needed to run it last week. As usual. So much for their new pool policy.

Their new pool policy didn't amount to anything. Little bit of massaging the regulating stages at Newport and Georgetown by a couple feet or days here or there.

Min flow was 950cfs and they doubled it to 1900cfs which they had been running that or more for weeks if not months now.

30-40,000cfs is an entirely different magnitude. 

The only real change as I recall was instead of pulling it back down 1129 after this type of event, it'll be 1127 to give them a little more reaction time. 

[Dutch]

I have seen some videos from the Facebook Table Rock Lake group.  All the upper areas look nasty.

[Phil Lilley]

I got that est from someone who got it from a Corps ranger.  I'm sure he got it from someone in the office that heard it from ...

Yeah now that the system is close to capacity, any more moderate rains will put more water on us (Taney). 

We traveled over 86 yesterday.  All the rivers and creeks were still full.

[Phil Lilley]

1 hour ago, Devan S. said:

Their new pool policy didn't amount to anything. Little bit of massaging the regulating stages at Newport and Georgetown by a couple feet or days here or there.

Min flow was 950cfs and they doubled it to 1900cfs which they had been running that or more for weeks if not months now.

30-40,000cfs is an entirely different magnitude. 

The only real change as I recall was instead of pulling it back down 1129 after this type of event, it'll be 1127 to give them a little more reaction time. 

I don't know... they seem to be ok with letting Beaver stay close to 1130 feet in the past.  Who knows....

21,000 cfs is about all we can handle and still stay in operation.  But that's just one business in the big picture.  We could take 25 and still get on our dock but sending boats out is another thing.  We're only sending out bass boats and pontoons now - no jon boats.

Go to show it only takes one big event to send this into crisis mode.  I remember back 15 years ago one event - TR started at 907 feet.  This rain sent us into the first of several "floods".  I think we got 61,000 cfs then.

I think at some point, Congress is going to have to revisit all the Power Pool levels.  Unfortunately, it may take a catastrophic event like the emergency gates opened to get there. 

[tjm]

Dry ditches are still flowing so the streams are still being fed storm water.