Paseofreak: thanks for the info. Didn't mean to suggest that Monday's rainfall was a normal occurrence by any means. My question about the damming process, is that the water that is dammed, (lets say 10ft depth), is another 10ft of water that would normally would have to build up to. With the dams, that is its new starting point (it has a 10ft head start in reaching flood stage). Doesn't it?

Does anyone of a link to an article or news report? I still haven't run across any about the Oklahoma River being above flood stage (didn't see anything in Tues paper, but may have gone to press before that happened). Will look again in Wed.