Even with people joking about today's weather forecasts, the weather prediction is actually very reliable, especially on amounts of precipitation.
The COE is using rules of engagement from the 1950's....And the dumbasses don't have to dump water and fish from the bottom gates, to regulate normal outflow when heavy precipitation is not called for.
That lake can almost grow by another 1/3rd at summer pool before it ever starts to rise on the dam tower. I've fished from the breaker walls when they were inches from being underwater...I've fished in the west bank woods, and from the flooded campgrounds...and it still never came close to rising on the main dam or came over the Emergency overflow.
I'm just asking for a common sense approach...just alittle common sense.