Posted: 1/15/2007 5:49:34 AM EDT
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Rain, water, liquid, precipitation, angel peep pee... Is anybody as sick of this rain as I am? All my creeks and rivers are all swelled up--can't get to my favorite shootin spot! Local weather "ace" sez: "...streams and rivers may leave their banks." Hugh? "flood" you mean? Talk plain weatherfolk! Sticky, clingy mud all over my boots, beagles, and floors. Since last summer, I ain't seen as much rain in my 60 years. |
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In the 60's and 70's, we had much more snow during the winters. Sure seems like the climate has changed. Maybe due to El Nino. El Nino |
You ought to see the Great Miami River here where it run through town, it up into the levee here, maybe 3ft above normal currently. Nice to pull out the Yamaha and have at it, but the water is a bit cold, and all the debris I could suck up into the jet pump. |
| A handfull of years ago (10ish) I ran a 12ft V hull with a 8 hp motor from "treasure island" up to my sister in laws house (a few doors down from Seamans trans) in this level of water.(wide open all the way up 20+ minutes and a five minute coast back down) Stupid....yes.....why......I have no clue other than to do it.(and it's the only time you can take any boat other than a canoe that part of the river) And I made the paper almost twenty years ago doing a rescue on the banks in a farmall tractor with a bucket on it and a buddy in it.(still have the pic they gave to me) Too many years on 25A and dealing with the water. I have waded waist deep to extract cars out in hard current to save them. This is minor compared to times in the past. The only thing messed up for me is the road is flooded in west carrolton that we haul to so that shut down my production for a couple days. |
I've been told that 1 could ride from Treasure Island to Piqua withthe high water... farthest north I have ventured from there is up to where the water split around the long island across from the Arang, then I did scrape bottom there... sorta behind the old Rapid Fire store ? |
Reread what you wrot and I don't think you could get to Piqua on the water. Theres several sets of "shallow rapids" 1 good fall/drop. Maybe it could be done but I would have to guess that the level would have to be where it was a few years ago when they shut done 25 because it was coming over it in several places. And I wouldn't have the nuggets to find out if you could do it then in a 25+mph current. Daring, maybe but not wanting to die. I watched a DA a couple months ago (last time it flooded) drive a dakota into the ball diamonds hood deep.......the sheriff loved him.
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