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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (11)5/13/2007 10:40:46 PM
From: SI Bob   of 19
 
When I read that story earlier it made me think about how not only will repairing the dam on my lake do a lot of good for a lot of people downstream who are flooded in very often, it's also key that the thing holds so it doesn't make things worse during these once a decade events. The idea is to keep it to where the downstream flooding is never as bad. Trading in a continual but livable flow of water for that creek's occasional dryness and occasional (like last week) flooding that's so bad that if you're standing on one bank you can't see where the water ends at the other side.

I went down to Pittsburg, KS the day after the last of the rain and we had to turn back at several places and ended up having to do a couple of water crossings. And when I was going through Ottawa, KS on my way back, a river that you usually can barely see from the bridge going over it was nearly over the roadway.

And when I went up to Hastings, NE Thursday, many fields were still lakes and there were parts of I-29 where it was obvious it'd been under water. Dried mud for a road surface. Trees pushed to the side of the road.

When I headed west near Nebraska City, it didn't take long to reach areas that didn't get much, if any, rain. Tractors kicking up dust in the fields. Irrigation systems running.

I took I-80 to I-29 home (rather than the shortcut that saved 50 miles) but it was too dark when I passed my favorite racetrack outside Pacific Junction. Was really curious if it'd been a lake last week.
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