WIS just announced that they are opening the spillway gates at noon. This is the first time since 1969 the gates have been opened due to weather.
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WIS just announced that they are opening the spillway gates at noon. This is the first time since 1969 the gates have been opened due to weather.
That is interesting news! A lot of water flowing down your way from the upstate.
The nine inches we have on the ground hasn't helped. It has rained off and on for nine days. Columbia is flooded out. WIS says the rain should be over by 2/3, then we have to worry about the runoff. Stay at home, pop some popcorn and watch football.
Now is not a good time my pond can't take much more! Why now? Why not wait a few hours or so to let some of this water go down stream? I guess my bill will go up some more next month because they had to open the spillway!! I will be charged for it.
I just put on my raincoat and walked my old dog down to the lake. I'm at the end of Beavercreek, under the Jake Knotts bridge. The 10-12 inch stump by my dock that I measure water level with is gone. Under water. The whole area is covered with trash, large trees, and limbs floating in the slough. The water is a dull yellow. The first time I have seen it like that. We will have some dangerous boating conditions for a week or so with all of the floating debris. Be careful out there. Water levels are up probably 18 inches. The good news is that it is brightening up and the rain has slacked off a little.
A good heads up warning Thumper1. The debris will be around for awhile to come. Sounds like y'all are having some bad trouble from the midlands to the coast.
It rained all night. Murray is FULL! 12 days now that it has rained at least a little. We are going to get another 1-2 per WIS. 20.5 inches already on the ground. We need some relief!!
dont think they are to much worried about your pond. Opening the flood gates gives tons of relief to the river system up stream and the hundreds of peoe it affects.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie
If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. People saw the spillway gates open yesterday and were reporting that the Murray dam had broken. The announcers on tv had to reassure the people that the dam hadn't broken.
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Originally Posted by brush pile
I know Brush Pile I just wish they had done it earlier which I heard they suppose to have done it like Friday to be prepared for the worst.
It's hard for me to believe but Murray has actually risen by 2-3 inches since 8 this morning according to my scientific stump located beside my dock. I didn't think there was enough rain upstream to raise the water level when they have all of the gates open. This was at 4:30 p.m.
Thumper I still have the boards out of our pond and probably going to wait until Saturday to put a board back.
They never did open all the gates. The gates they did open flooded a lot of homes and there was a lot of grief sent out about deliberately flooding them. (Guess they didn't care about the ones upstream). To open all the gates would be devastation down river.
Brush Pile your kidding?! I'm just wondering why they didn't let the lake down before this storm came through?:dono
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Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie
I know now this is above my pay grade, but I believe it would have made things a lot worse. No one below lake Murray could have stood any more water. Take columbia for example. That place is still in chaos.
im sorry to hear about all the problems this storm has caused I am in no way trying to offend any one but I have to give duke power an amen for the way they operated lake Wateree. I have had a place on Wateree sense 1985 and this is the first time it has not flooded with that much rain sense I,ve been there. again my prayers go out to everybody this storm has effected
Murray was actually down 2-3 feet before the storm. Last week I walked out into the water on our ramp just checking to see if it was deep enough to launch. They opened the gates and the Coldstream development started to flood so they had to back off. I looked this morning, the lake has dropped about 5-6 inches from the high water mark that I made on Monday. Folks in the low country catching it now. I saw on the news last night that parts of Conway are flooding. There was just too much water to regulate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie
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Originally Posted by Thumper1
Yea I've got a good friend that lives in Kingstree and it's not good around there. I'm going to give him a call this weekend and see how they are holding up.