Lake of the ozarks
 

Just learned a fact on animal planet. Where lake of the ozarks is was originally over 60 cemeteries. Before building the dam and flooding they were only able to exhume and relocate about half of the bodies. The rest are presumed to still be buried and underwater. Interesting.

Googled it and found this

http://www.lakehistory.info/gravesites.htm

That's my home turf, the LOTO history is very interesting, the Bagnell Dam was built in the mid-thirties, it's almost 100' deep at it's deepest point and the main channel is 100 miles long with 1,200 miles of shoreline, it's beautiful, expect Nov through March when it's freezing friggin' cold and and snowing, now you know why we bought a house down here.

Here's the Lake house, Winters suck, look at the snow next to the Formula.

Yeah I was just doing some reading on it. Once I saw this fact made me look into it.

That is true, but it is important to recall that Construction of LOTO started 1929 and the dam was no completed until 1931. it remains as one of the largest man-made lakes in the world and the largest in the United States. It was built at a time of the introduction of hydro electric power plant for the Osage River. There is alot of interesting history at LOTO

Damn Jim, was the pic of the boat just after you covered it cause you went for an afternoon ride? Loo

Is that lake froze over?

I will be showing the GF this lol. We both fell in love with that area when there for the shootout this year. She wants to move there bad now. I told her though we have yet to see a winter there and we are both FL folk so we are cold weather pansy's.

You should see me shoveling the snow off the dock so it doesn't get to heavy and sink it, ice and snow isn't fun when you're grown up.

Yes, that's the lake frozen over and that's my neighbor with a gas powered chainsaw cutting ths ice so it breaks up so it doesn't crush all our docks, like I said winters suck in the midwest or we wouldn't have bought a house down here where it's warm, the Shootout and Summer is great fun, but living there 12 months of the year, not for me anymore, think about it, it's a big move.

If you're a cold weather person it's not for you and what's even worse from November to March you "MIGHT" see the sun one day of the week, we call St. Louis (St. Gloomis) because the sun doesn't come back out until April, we're spoiled down here, the sun is out everyday, get ready for darkness and good luck.

LOTO does have some interesting history......and some interesting people, especially in the upper mile markers....cue banjo music :)

but winters are not THAT bad, Joey. Its not tropical costal but not Minnesota either.
Snow like that is exceptional and does not happen but every couple years. Even when it does come down, it usually disappears fast. Ozarks are rarely bitter cold but can get down enough to cover coves in ice at some point every year. (not thick enough a person can venture far from shore usually) Main channel icing takes an exceptional year.

No hurricanes to deal with and best of all, NO SALTWATER!

Every location has its plus and minus, just depends on how an individual rates each point.

Nice thing about both locations is there are tons of vacation home possibilities. Its not hard to rent a place for a month and enjoy either location.

I've seen over 100' on my depthfinder in a couple different locations on LOTO.

Yes, Midwest winters suck but LOTO is Southwest of where a lot of the clippers come down from the North. I cannot tell you how many times I've left Central IL in 30 degree weather and as soon as I cross I-70 the temp starts going up and it is in the 60's at LOTO. I've boated every month of the year on LOTO. However, your boating window on those 60 - 70 degree winter days is only a few hours in the middle of the day. I boat from April thru October in IL. In LOTO it is about the same except you have more nicer days in that 7 month window.

Gathering ice for cocktails on a 70 degree day in Party Cove 2/1/2003.

Ditto! If you are coming up from Florida, the winters might seem long and cold, but it is really not that bad. For anybody willing to gamble, I would bet a bunch of $$$ that you will see the sun more than 22 times from November through March.

That said, south Florida sure is nice that time of year! we are hoping to get back down in March.

Here let me post a few more for all, the last winter we "lived fulltime" at LOTO we got snowed in for three days, that was it, the snow removal was terrible in Camden County where we lived, the cold weather doesn't bother some folks like others, but I'll be just fine boating down here in January instead of shoveling snow up North, be safe in the ice and snow this winter guys.

Like I said, we love Missouri and LOTO, just not from Dec-March, I'm just fine down here.

YOU BETTER COUNT THOSE SUNNY DAYS THIS WINTER, BECAUSE THE SUN WON'T BE OUT MORE THEN ONE DAY A WEEK AND THAT'S WHAT'S THE WORST.

The lake has some interesting history for sure.

Mike (I.CU.) some things are interesting for sure.

Definitely gotta try to get up there and check it out.

I tried PMing you the other day and it wouldn't let me, what's up, your box full.

Don't let all those snow pictures hold you back. The last 2 years we have been able to squeeze a boat ride in every month during winter. That storm that Joey posted about wrecked the entire lake area. It was a mad house to around here. I have boated all over the Country and love coming back home to LOTO.

Try living in Cleveland, Ohio make LOTO look like FL..... yes if you live in FL. DO NOT move north, you will hate life, only good thing is boat sits for a few months, allowing to save money and fix boat!!

You made my point, if you're from the midwest you can survive the winters and if you're a weekend at the Lake is different too, but if you live there fulltime is harder, EVEN THOUGHT LOTO IS ONE OF THE BEST BOATING PLACES IN THE US TO BOAT IN THE SUMMER, when you get snowed in for days at a time because the county does a crappy job plowing it's not that much fun.

FYI, it's tons easier for Brett to boat all year he has 5 guys waiting back at the shop (PBC) to winterize whatever boat they took out that winter day, the average joe doesn't have to facilities or people to do that.

The last two winters have been mild, but the three before that were "KILLERS" ice and snow crushed hundreds of hundreds of docks and boats and that the facts, my advice would be to try it first for a few weeks before you jump in and if you do buy a 4x4 truck, you'll probably going to need it sometime next winter.

And again, we love LOTO, we're coming back to buy a condo, but only for the four summer months, good luck.

BTW, I didn't photoshop these photos, there pics from a few winters ago looking at my dock, scary huh.

Apparently, some folks thinking I'm bashing the Midwest, Missouri or LOTO and I'm not, we love LOTO, why say I'm bashing if I state facts and my opinion, oh, that's right some people don't get to have their own opinions.

Not trying to argue at all but Brett's customers that do inside winter storage at PBC get to enjoy that privilege also ;)

I see where that would be a huge PLUS and I'm sure that's why they're all filled up too.