Wicked Temptation

Last I heard, the water is projected to go over the dam on July 4 at about noon. There was more rain there today so it could happen sooner. Here is the latest official information for today.

SHEF ID: DSNT2 Lake Texoma, Denison Dam
STATION TYPE: RESERVOIR
Flood Control Pool: Bottom = 619.00, Top = 640.00 (SCP elev. for 04Jul2007)
local start_hour = 1
PRECIP PRECIP(2) ELEVATION STORAGE TW-ELEV INFLOW RELEASE AIR-TEMP WIND-DIRWIND-SPEED REL-HUMID SOLAR-RAD VOLTAGE
INCHES INCHES FEET ACFT FEET CFS CFS DEG-F DEGREES MPH PERCENT W/M2 VOLTS
GOES GOES GOES GOES GOES COMPRESQ POWERQ GOES GOES GOES GOES GOES GOES
(Cen)
07/03 01:00 0.00 0.00 635.92 4506058 509.12 ---- ---- 73.44 109.30 4.64 92.70 0.00 13.78
07/03 02:00 0.00 0.00 636.00 4516436 509.07 ---- ---- 73.22 116.80 4.97 93.98 0.00 13.78
07/03 03:00 0.00 0.00 636.08 4527034 509.05 ---- ---- 72.54 115.00 3.10 95.07 0.00 13.78
07/03 04:00 0.00 0.00 636.15 4536307 509.12 ---- ---- 72.01 90.00 3.48 96.42 0.00 13.78
07/03 05:00 0.00 0.00 636.24 4548223 509.22 ---- ---- 71.44 91.00 3.25 96.96 0.00 13.78
07/03 06:00 0.00 0.00 636.30 4556170 509.17 ---- ---- 71.46 92.40 3.72 97.15 0.00 13.78
07/03 07:00 0.00 0.00 636.37 4565442 509.01 ---- ---- 71.67 79.00 3.54 97.22 4.00 13.78
07/03 08:00 0.00 0.00 636.45 4576040 509.10 ---- ---- 72.43 109.70 3.32 95.56 19.00 13.78
07/03 09:00 0.00 0.00 636.53 4586638 509.08 ---- ---- 73.44 94.50 3.76 93.67 71.00 13.41
07/03 10:00 0.00 0.00 636.60 4595903 508.99 ---- ---- 74.64 97.10 3.17 91.23 157.00 13.78
07/03 11:00 0.00 0.00 636.69 4607826 508.95 ---- ---- 75.42 94.10 3.91 89.15 201.00 13.78
07/03 12:00 0.10 0.09 636.75 4615774 509.01 ---- ---- 72.77 113.30 5.02 94.35 182.00 13.77
07/03 13:00 0.00 0.00 636.81 4623720 509.09 ---- ---- 73.33 92.80 3.82 91.60 192.00 13.78
07/03 14:00 0.01 0.01 636.90 4635644 509.11 ---- ---- 75.29 85.50 3.24 89.69 312.00 13.78
07/03 15:00 0.00 0.00 636.98 4646234 509.15 ---- ---- 77.49 78.60 3.81 83.16 468.00 13.78
07/03 16:00 0.00 0.00 637.05 4655637 509.11 ---- ---- 81.01 53.90 4.29 74.44 467.00 13.79
07/03 17:00 0.00 0.00 637.12 4665093 509.14 ---- ---- 83.21 71.70 4.37 64.90 792.00 13.78
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So, between 1am this morning and 5pm this evening it has risen 1.2 feet. The flood gates are still closed as far as I can tell. They said they will open them when it goes over the spillway and have warned everyone downstream to get any equipment or livestock out of the area.

Thankfully, our boat is in dry storage on ground high enough that if it floods there, there will be much bigger problems to be concerned with. Looks like this year is going to be a "wash" for us boating ... LITERALLY!!!!!!!

Probably going up to take a look at things tomorrow just to make sure we don't need to do something with the boat. I'll take some pictures if we do.

PurpleStuff

floodgates are open and the water is about, by the looks of it, one foot from the top of the spillway...

TexomaPowerboater

If were lucky we may be able to boat on Labor Day

Pretty good, but not so good article by the Dallas Morning News.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....b962eb83.html

Clay Washington

sad to hear...

A Plano father and son were killed July 7 when they tried to jump from a cliff into the lake's swollen waters.

TexomaPowerboater

Yes that is pretty sad. They planned it out all week. I think they had a place up there on the water. Their family went to great links to try and cover up what really happend.........I'd probobly do the same