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I thought for the ones of us that have put out rain gauges it would be kind of neat to see who's getting what. Just when ever you can get a chance to read your gauge and just let us know along with the time you checked. Hey what else is their to do, it's going to rain the next 2 days! No fishing!:mad::mad:
I'm over in Springdale by the Columbia Airport checked my gauge at 12:32am which measured 0.85"
Here in Piedmont my gauge shows 1'' @ 8:00 am this morning.
Yesterday about 6 PM, I had .6" in rain gauge which I dumped. This morning at 8 AM, an additional 2" was showing. I am about 25 miles west of Lake Wylie. It's going to take a lot more to fill up the lake.
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Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER
Memories of an old man sitting on the couch with nothing to do but watch it rain. I lived in Clover and worked at the Westinghouse/Siemens turbine plant for 42 years. I sat at work one day with my calculator and figured that I had crossed the Buster Boyd bridge over 34,000 times. Wylie is almost like a mountain lake. There is a tremendous amount of runoff that pours into the lake. About a mile up hwy 49, heading north, after crossing the bridge, there used to be a stone marker that said that this is the highest point in Mecklenburg county. The stone was placed there in 1946, being the geek that I am, I get out of my truck some times and read these old signs when I see them. The stone was removed when they four laned the road several years ago. I used to cross the bridge at 5 and notice the low water levels. We would have a two hour thunder storm that night and the next morning, the rock wall on the right you see when you cross Crowders Creek would be under water. The point of my ramblings is that once the ground is wet, it does not take a whole lot of rain to fill Lake Wylie. I have also found out that the real highest point, by a couple of feet, is on the other side of the airport. I guess that in 1946 the measuring was not that accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by charles biggers
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!!!!
At 4am. 10/3/15 we had 4.3 ins. that was from 6.30 pm. the day before 10/2/15. Let it rain LET IT RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
My gauge is when the frogs ask for life jackets in the back yard. I told Remus they were working on the dam for a while this morning and will run all the water down river to keep it where they want it. We'll see how much we get when it stops raining. I hope all the creeks and run offs turn our way for a change without the sewage from Charlotte. It will good to get some water back in the lakes.:pray
Emptied my gauge Fri. a.m as I left for that "W" thing. As of 10:00 a.m. today have 3.5 in it. Let it rain. Thats pretty close to 6 in. since this started last week. Wylie should start coming up this weekend for sure.
1.8" from yesterday at 7am thru today at 8 am
Lake Wylie near walmart
I talked to a man that lives on Wylie around lunch time today he says the lake has came up almost a foot in last 6 hours
that was around 12:30 pm 10=3=2015 so he must have ment it came up that much sense around 6:30
==let me clear myself !!! that is what the man that lives on Wylie said
who was he ? don't know== but he lives on Wylie == I was in his yard
how much rain did we get?? don't have a gage but when my giraffe shows back up I will measure from the ground to his =^2His
well I will measure up to his something and let you know later
You sure are being clear on this report!
Here's what I need to know
When can I put my boat in the water at the Allison ramp????:bash
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Originally Posted by brettw
Last April seemed like a good time ! :Rofl
The last time Clark Hill got so low the TV people said it would take couple of years of rainfall or a God's miracle to fill it back up. After two weeks of rain the lake was full again. Just thinking that Wylie aint half the size of the hill, and a week of rain already, once the run off stops then that lake ought to be full again.
Sorry I haven't reported earlier but I've got leaks I have been dealing with and having to go to Lowes. Then mother-in-law said she had 3 leaks I had to check out and my neighbor next door asked if she could borrow the ladder because she had a leak. You think that's the end? Why no because as we(neighbor and I) were talking her son drove up wanting to borrow the ladder because he had a leak! Just got home from getting something to eat and ready for a nap.
Just checked the gauge at 6:26pm reading 3.10" total. Now it is really pouring down! Will check again in an hour to see what it reads.
3.75 " in my gauge,,,,since Friday,,,,Pageland
Just under 3" right now in mine, that is since Friday afternoon. It has been a steady drizzle all day, but no hard downpours. It is raining much harder at the Ga football game than it is here.
Wonder how it will be at the Clemson game?
Well the pour down didn't last long because shortly after posting it died out. Checked gauge again at 7:31pm reading 3.20" nothing like they said for us.
About the same 3" here in Shelby, NC
just bring it over to Bethany ==that's where Allison creek starts (or so I have been told by locals)Quote:
Originally Posted by brettw
it should be high enough to get you back to the landing its only about 20 miles :dono
Just checked gauge at 11:32pm and measured 4.50"
Well don't have a gauge but in the last 24 hours the pool is up 3 inches..
Live in iva. .
Checked the gauge at 9:30am and it was overflowing at 6.5"
Dont have a gauge right now, but we didn't get the rain they said we would get, Broad River was perdicted to rise to 14.4, 1.7 to 2.5 is normal, it is at 6.4 this morning and falling.
4 1/2'' here this morning and I emptied 2 1/2'' last night so for Saturday day/night = 7"
Lots of water fell for sure, I hope everyone will be happy with what we got. I know we will have to settle for it up here. Just have to wait and see what Duke does about the ramps and how much water they run out from the dam. :juggle I hope they will keep full pond level! :pray
I have emptied gauge twice after being full, we currently have totaled 11.25 inches that was measured. Probably have received more than that as gauge was over flowing the first time a checked. At least two large pond/lakes have breached their dams causing massive flooding and damage in and around Columbia. I-20 and I 26 both are closed due to river flooding. This is far worse than any hurricane or tropical storm that I have ever witnessed as far as rain totals go.
4.25" in last 2 days here. STRONG wind last nite and today. The yard's a MESS.
SUN shining in Lexington. The second time I have seen the sun in 11 days.
You spoke too soon, it is raining again. My niece lives close to the Saluda River in West Cola. She has to evacuate. If she can find a was across the creeks she may come stay with us. My gauge filled up and overflowed during the night so 5" plus what ever ran over by this morning. Emptied it at 9 am and 1.5" back in it and it is raining again.
Any body got any Gopher wood???
Raining here also. We did have two hours of in and out sun before the next wave hit. My daughter, son in law, and the 5 and 3 yr. old boys are here. They live in Irmo in Coldstream and have been without power since 6 a.m. Mimi has cooked a big supper and we are about to chow down. I'll run them home tomorrow.