Flooding

DeltaRed · Sep 16, 2013

With all the flooding here inCo,I wonder how much flooding there will be when all that water gets to KS-NE and beyond.The three major affected rivers :Cache La Poudre,Thompson,St.Vrain all drain into the South Platte,which drains into the Missouri,then the Missippi.So,you guys in those areas,you under water yet?

magpiene · Sep 16, 2013

Not yet!!!! Expecting a crest Wednsday? The only thing that MIGHT help us is that we have been so dry, that most of the irrigation systems are low on water. I am at Cozad, right on the Platte.

Wheat Farmer · Sep 16, 2013

The family farm was at Big Springs NE, Maybe they will have to rename it Little River. Ha Ha
So many people have lost so much.

Flagblue · Sep 16, 2013

Lake McConaughy is only around half full. It seems like it would hold a lot of that water. There might be a chance to control the downstream damage.

Flagblue · Sep 16, 2013

I was wrong, the lake is on the north platte not the south platte., so there will be more flooded areas.

GeneMO · Sep 16, 2013

Well, the Missouri has been pretty low for a good while. Take quite a bit to bring it up.

Gene

Tom in CO · Sep 16, 2013

I live on the N ST Vrain river west of lyons and it is still above flood stage. My wife and I were evacuated today by helicopter. Our house is fine but the state hwy 36 is damaged and washed away. our county road is still under 6ft of water no way in or out. There calling it the 1000 year flood. fema came knocking on our door and gave us 20 minutes, the national guard,fema ,boulder county sheriff all were top notch. it looks like we will be out for a few months. The water is heading east and flooding everything in its path.

tom

mj · Sep 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:58:25 09/16/13) ..............There calling it the 1000 year flood. ...........

tom

The flood in June of '65 dumped 14" in 24 hrs. but it was centered more to the SW and, for the most part, spared the area north and west of Denver . It wasn't the Platte river system that time but the Arkansas and its' tributaries - What's going on now is a bad deal for sure but a thousand-year-flood? - not hardly :roll:

I was living in Pueblo at the time and [i:1896387c25]saw[/i:1896387c25] the flooded (normally pretty much dry) Fountain Creek breaking OVER the 4th street bridge which would require a bit more than 17 ft. of water to accomplish. At the Brewery Bridge (where the Fountain dumps into the Arkansas) the water from the Fountain actually caused the Arkansas to flow backwards for about 30-40 yards. :shock:

By the way, it took about 2 months (as I remember) for the flood waters to get to Great Bend, KS.

ss55 · Sep 17, 2013

This summer the upper Mississippi River has been too low to float fully loaded barges. It is still very dry in central Minnesota and western Iowa.

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