Missouri River Info

Been to busy to post. Spending copious amounts of time at The Dunes. If your interested in the flooding here is a good site to visit. http://sd.gov/
This should answer any questions, I'll post more later. Trash, get your hip waders on.
Better yet maybe trade that silver 'X' in for a motor boat.

I should add that the aerial photos of the dunes are a couple of days old, June 1st. Water is up prolly 2.5' since then and will really start to rise after saturday. Corp is releasing 105,000 cubic ft second and increasing 10,000 a day to the maximum of 150,000 cfs and am told will hold at that rate till October. If the levee doesn't hold, most of the Dunes will go under.

hang in there Bro..............we will be prayin for

good luck in your good effort to fight these mitey floods , let us no when its under control , and your feet are dry again ,

Keep fightin' the good fight and stay safe. Don't be no hero.

jeff , don't ya work on road maintance , did they just reasign ya for this flooding problems ,

Yes Bill, governor dedicated the maintenance forces to assist the highway patrol with traffic control until the national guard showed up.
Organized chaos prolly best describes the situation. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of last week was unbelievable for trucks going in and people trying to move out.
They (the powers that be) haven't said, but I've heard that they are concerned about the Oahe dam, it has moved about 19" / 20"
That would explain why all of a sudden they need to dump all this water. I realize that with parts of Montana getting a years worth of rain in 5 or so days and them having 600% of an annual snow amount, that is just starting to melt, are reasons enough. But when they know this and have a plan and all of a sudden maximum water flow is pushed up 3 to 4 weeks, something is going on.

smokum wrote:Yes Bill, governor dedicated the maintenance forces to assist the highway patrol with traffic control until the national guard showed up.
Organized chaos prolly best describes the situation. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of last week was unbelievable for trucks going in and people trying to move out.
They (the powers that be) haven't said, but I've heard that they are concerned about the Oahe dam, it has moved about 19" / 20"
That would explain why all of a sudden they need to dump all this water. I realize that with parts of Montana getting a years worth of rain in 5 or so days and them having 600% of an annual snow amount, that is just starting to melt, are reasons enough. But when they know this and have a plan and all of a sudden maximum water flow is pushed up 3 to 4 weeks, something is going on.

it sure has been a busy season around this country , talked to my nephew in northern ark the other nite , and he said all was lost with there first planting of crops , there just now trying to get back on the fields again , so i assume all the way down the mississippi is hurting 1 way or the other , now all that water will be making its way down there again , hope with everybody pitching in , things can get back to normal , please keep us posted on this when you can

Will do Bill. Took yesterday and today off. Went camping to get away. Some of those other guys can substitute.

Be safe out there Jeff. Moving dams are definitely on the BAD list. Most of the rivers here are just below flood stage and the water is very cold and fast. There have been two people killed in the last two weeks because they got too close and fell in. We have not hit the peak runoff yet and will not for at least a month.