OT - high water

[ronnie gauthier]

Upper Peninsula MI
The flooding affected pretty much across the whole peninsula but Silver Lake
busting the dam was the only major incident. Some minor ones include smaller
wooden and ORV bridges gone(every county lost something) and some people on the
way to work driving into washouts(Ironwood). Just looked at the official of the
water, 8 billion gallons.

http://wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=1280151&nav=81AWFqPG
go to the bottom and take the link to the video. Its small but about a minute
into it you can see the width of the dam and the water pouring over it. Just to
keep things clear. The dam in the picture is not the dam that broke. This dam is
the hoist dam and although critical, is expected to hold. If it doesn't then
half of NMU campus and 30% of Marquette are going for a swimm.

The silver lake dam project was completed last year and I think it was unstable.
Sure the water is so high old timers are shaking their heads and saying they
aint never seen it so high. But high water is no excuse, someone fsck'd it.I
kinda think the power company and DNR are gonna take this one on the chin.

We had a dam let go 6 miles from me about 20 years ago and they had to open up
everything on the Menominee down to Lake Michigan. There were places by the
main rip cut 90 feet deep. What was neat was you could see the old gorge and
waterfalls, something I had never seen before.



On Fri, 16 May 2003 22:24:53 -0400 - Tom Wilson <wtw at fuse.net> wrote the
following
Re: Re: OT - high water

>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
>
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