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Adios Pantalones
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When do you stop calling it a brook, and it becomes a river? (and how big does a worm have to be before it's a snake?)
Nice pics- good to see it's past crest
Nice pics- good to see it's past crest
Adios Pantalones said:
When it does this! This is the road the brook/river crosses under then comes onto our property, I think this was 9/18/2005 when it RAINED real hard.
http://ny.water.usgs.gov/projects/news/WB_Ausable.04282001-caption.jpg
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This has been a wet spring (8 or more inches of precip over where we should be for this time of year) but nothing like June 2008. We had major flooding and a lot of bridges were taken out like Zap's pic. That Friday night it rained, as hard as I've ever heard it rain, for about 10 hours. We ended up with about 11 inches of rain that night. The next day it was mass flooding. I was driving through a parking lot at a strip mall...before I knew it the water went from just over the tires on my Ranger to up over the hood when I tried turning around to get out of there. Interstate 70 was shut down because water was flowing over...people being rescued from homes in boats...a lot like what's going on down south now (but in a much smaller area).
That was a wild week. Thankfully my house was high and dry, but many weren't so lucky.
My parents have a creek that runs through their property. I've seen it rise 14' in 24 hours...and then drop just as quickly. Goes from a foot deep to 15' in a hurry. Not uncommon to see 30" + trees floating down the creek when it really gets high.
That was a wild week. Thankfully my house was high and dry, but many weren't so lucky.
My parents have a creek that runs through their property. I've seen it rise 14' in 24 hours...and then drop just as quickly. Goes from a foot deep to 15' in a hurry. Not uncommon to see 30" + trees floating down the creek when it really gets high.
guess there aint a whole lot of fishing on the Ausable when its that high!! holy cow thats a lot of water!! is that on 86 over by the ski center?
Mt Ski Bum
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This has been one of our wettest springs on record... record mountain snowpack (the driest river basin in the state is currently at 138% of normal snowpack), combined with colder than normal spring temps, which have resulted in runoff hardly even starting above 8,000 ft., & an unusually rainy sping have all combined to produce... you guessed it.. record flooding.
I-90 is closed between Hardin, Mt & the Wyoming state line due to the Little Bighorn River flooding, & water is going over the spillway at a dam up by my parent's place in central Mt for the first time since the dam was built nearly 40 years ago... & it's only gonna get worse (more & more rain in the forcast, plus a ton of snow still waiting to come down from the mountains).
I-90 is closed between Hardin, Mt & the Wyoming state line due to the Little Bighorn River flooding, & water is going over the spillway at a dam up by my parent's place in central Mt for the first time since the dam was built nearly 40 years ago... & it's only gonna get worse (more & more rain in the forcast, plus a ton of snow still waiting to come down from the mountains).
That is the section of the ausable where I always fish. This is going to be tough on the local economy that thrives on summer fishing, as well as skiing in the winter. Wasn't rt 86 closed for a couple of months about 3 yrs ago due to a section being washed out. The section was by the wall past wilmington notch campground if yo were headin south.
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