OT - high water

[Tom Wilson]

On Friday 16 May 2003 06:56 pm, ronnie gauthier's voice rose above the 
ones in my head and stated:
> We've had quite a bit of rain around here lately. A litte way north
> of me is a place called dead river basin. The power co and DNR hav a
> joint dam there, there are two more dams downstream. The other night
> the dead river basin(area behind dam...very large) pushed one of the
> four dikes around the dam out of the way and let loose. Lost about
> half a dozen bridges and lots of land. A main power plant is isolated
> and down, leaving two iron ore mines down. The other dams are
> producing at reduced levels due to cooling problems with dirty water.
> The power co is asking pepole to reduce usage or face rolling
> blackouts. A main gas line is out. The water is pouring over the tops
> of the other two dams but "sources" say they should hold. Is it a
> devastating thing but looking at the hoist dam it is now one of the
> largest waterfalls in the US. It is just awesome to see whole trees
> going by and over the dam top. Last night a large pontoon boat(you
> would not believe all the weird stuff floating) went over. Millions
> of gallons of water, thousands of acres of land, hundreds of
> boats/rafts/docks piled up...and not one human fatality. Truely
> wonderous.

What part of the country are you in?  I haven't been watching much TV 
and don't check the weather when I read news on the net.  

Here in Cincinnati, last weekend we had about 5 inches of rain in about 
1 1/2 to 2 hours in the early morning Saturday. Although it caused 
flash flooding and pushed the rivers out of the banks a bit but nothing 
like you describe.  

I did a hell of a number in my basement too...

--Tom Wilson