Wednesday, March 9, 2011

River trip....

It flooded, people died, houses got lost... it was even a declared disaster

Not that one would suspect since its not exactly screaming water, water everywhere

And heres a little secret no one mentions... a 40' tall pile of  tailings and dirt which (possibly)backed the waters up like a dam till it washed out....the face thats exposed is 30' high... ..which the Army Corps of Engineers somehow missed...along with the rest of the anomoly.... people died upstream in the (speculated) back up.... but commercial interests (seem to) always trump the public interest.. I had to put in the (disclaimer things) so I don't get sued or appear critical of Gov inaction then end up on a no-fly list...

                            
A little more of the river and you kinda get the idea.... things arent really what they seem and what happened last year doesnt mean its going to be like that this year...its called a flood plain for a reason...people just tend to forget.... I've seen 30 feet of liquid hell with cars floating away more than once..and you've got no chance.. your not going to drive through it.. one guy I know tried driving through 18" of water... and ended up on a 6 foot deep hole where the roads pavement had been scoured out by fast water...

The whole area is marked with flash flood warnings.. and you don't see it coming looking overhead...it can be a storm in the mountians 25 miles away and you'll never feel a drop of rain..

All that water and the fishing blows......



1 comment:

  1. seems hard to believe that this can flood, but rain in the mountains will do it, kinda unpredictable, but nature is a great force, only to be ignored at ones peril.

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