Today's flood

[Kerry]

OK, let me sort this out:
1. 19 inch snow on Christmas Eve.
2. Annual killer tornadoes.
3. Hailstones the size of soccer balls, two feet deep!
and now,
4. Flash floods.

Are you getting the idea that Oklahoma wasn't meant to be inhabited?

I miss the severe, radical weather of OK. People in TX are such weather wusses.

You also forgot earthquakes (something like 62 since the beginning of the year).

[skyrick]

You also forgot earthquakes (something like 62 since the beginning of the year).

I heard about that, but were they just lines on a seismograph or could you actually feel some tectonic shift?

Remembering a commercial showing how happy California cows were, at the end of the commercial an earthquake begins and the cows squeal and giggle, "OOOHHHH! Foot massage!"

[Paseofreak]

Yep,it does have a head start. That can present quite a challenge for designers if. The controlling feature isn't downstream and generally requires widening, deepening or smoothing the channel. Regulations promulgated at FEMA's behest require extensive modelling. And analysis of channel mods within the floodway, so we can be reasonably sure that the changes don't result in. Significantly increased flood risk.

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.

[jbrown84]

Larry, the dams can be opened completely, which allows the water to flow right through.

[sam greenroyd]

Larry, the dams can be opened completely, which allows the water to flow right through.

If you completely open a dam you can do serious damage to the dam itself and everything in its path, the corps calculates water coming in and opens the gates either to slow down the rise, level it off, or drop the level depending on how much flooding is down stream.

[jbrown84]

Well obviously I didn't mean that they let the water build up completely and then just open the floodgates.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Too bad...I would be waiting in a kayak below the dam...

[kinggober]

Speaking of kayaking....check out these photos that my friend Carl Zoch took on 235. Carl Zoch Photography Blog

[Dustin]

Speaking of kayaking....check out these photos that my friend Carl Zoch took on 235. Carl Zoch Photography Blog

AWESOME! For the photographer not the drivers of those cars.. lol..

I found this pic on flickr.



Scary!

[rondvu]

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[barnold]

Was anyone downtown when they remembered to open the dams on the Oklahoma river from the boat races? The people I talked with said it was like someone flushed a toilet and the waters went down really quickly.

[bluedogok]

AWESOME! For the photographer not the drivers of those cars.. lol..

I found this pic on flickr.

Scary!

That looks like it could be The Village Ditch....

[Dustin]

That looks like it could be The Village Ditch....

It is