Gunpowder Flooding: A Day Later
Well, it’s a day later and the water is still stupid high. The waters peaked sometime in the pre-dawn hours this morning, with around ~3,600 cfs (!!) and at about 11.6 ft !! For those of you not familiar with the river, it’s normally running around 50-120 cfs and somewhere between ½ and 2 ft. So, needless to say, there’s roughly a metric shit-ton of water in the river right now.
I drove around again this afternoon to take another good look to see how things were shaking out. However, I didn’t really take any photos today. For something a little different, I was playing with my fathers D7000 and took some video. I’m no videographer, but I’m fairly pleased with how it came out.
Have a look:
I’m glad to see the waters coming down, and relatively quickly, but it will be a long while before things are settled down enough to fish on the Gunpowder again. Oh well, guess I won’t be hitting the tricos again around these parts…
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[...] UPDATE: If you’re interested in the flooding situation, I’ve posted a video from some of the river accesses from the day after these pictures were shot. And trust me, there’s still an impressive amount of water in the river. Check it out here. [...]
Nice vids but the aftermath is gone to take a long time for anything that looks and feels normal. Sometimes we forget, or at least I do, mother nature is in charge and we dance to her tracks…..
I don’t think that we’ll ever get back to “normal” as it were. Although only time will tell, I’m betting this flood will have changed the river for good.
But with all the damage also comes the fact that we now have a “brand new” river to explore. All the old haunts will likely be gone, with many new ones in place to hopefully replace the old ones.
Again though, only time will tell…