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Bagnell Dam opens flood gates at Lake of the Ozarks [Drought alert]
KY3 ^ | 7/1/15

Posted on 07/01/2015 1:00:48 PM PDT by markomalley

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1 posted on 07/01/2015 1:00:48 PM PDT by markomalley
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California could sure use some of that rain.

The cost of fruits and vegetables is really gonna rise unless the reservoirs and aquifier there are replenished soon.


2 posted on 07/01/2015 1:04:10 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: markomalley

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/uv?site_no=06926000


3 posted on 07/01/2015 1:08:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: MplsSteve

Well, California should have a surplus of the mud smelt they protected.

Maybe Moochie can somehow work the smelt into her school lunch program.


4 posted on 07/01/2015 1:16:22 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: markomalley

There hasn’t been much drought in Missouri and none in most of it. It’s a better state for orchards and vegetables grown in a more distributed, less centralized industry.


5 posted on 07/01/2015 1:18:20 PM PDT by familyop ("Baxters over there, Rojos there, and me right in the middle" ("A Fistful of Dollars").)
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Walnuts!


6 posted on 07/01/2015 1:20:59 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: MplsSteve

California needs rain and where I am in Texas we’ve had over 60 inches so far this year.


7 posted on 07/01/2015 1:31:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: MplsSteve

Your problem is that you’ve got shaman level pagans who believe spirits dwell in the shells of turtles and want to destroy civilization to return it to wilderness. These pagans masquerade as environmentalists.


8 posted on 07/01/2015 1:33:14 PM PDT by LouAvul (Liberalism: much more than just a mental illness)
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To: MplsSteve
California could sure use some of that rain.

So the land of fruits and nuts will have less fruits and nuts?

How will America survive!
9 posted on 07/01/2015 2:04:42 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: IMR 4350

What area of Texas is at 60” so far?


10 posted on 07/01/2015 2:11:56 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Deep SE Texas, Liberty County.

We’ve had about 3 inches so far this week and thunder is talking to me again right now.


11 posted on 07/01/2015 2:18:51 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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Interesting, Harris County is 35~50”, mostly mid/low 40”s.

http://www.harriscountyfws.org/


12 posted on 07/01/2015 2:20:51 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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We had over 16” is just a couple of days when Houston only had, IIRC, 4”-5”. That was before Houston flooded.

Chambers county just south of me had 18”-20” maybe more.

That rain and a lot of others are coming up from the Gulf through Chambers county and missing for the most part Harris county/Houston.


13 posted on 07/01/2015 2:29:41 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

We have certainly had our share this year, I’m fine with some passing us by now and then.

I work in Mont Belvieu, what I haven’t seen at home seems to be over there most days.

Cheers!


14 posted on 07/01/2015 2:33:00 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: markomalley
There is NO drought in Missouri!

There were a mere five (5) - 24 hour periods/days without rain in the metro Kansas City, MO area, in the month of May and continuous rain for the month of June!

15 posted on 07/01/2015 2:33:08 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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A lot of the rain we are getting is a case of rain generating rain.

The area isn’t developed so there isn’t drainage like developed areas and water is left standing.

As the clouds move in the hot moist air is sucked up and the moisture is then dumped on us as more rain.

We’re getting a lot of the water from one rain as another rain.


16 posted on 07/01/2015 2:50:19 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: MplsSteve

that ain’t crap..

what happened in the state of Michigan this week...

earthquakes...tornadoes...severe thunderstorms...monsoon style rains...flooding....

we got California beat hands down...


17 posted on 07/01/2015 3:38:37 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Time to put the taxpayer first)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

look what mark posted.

For the uninitiated, those flood gates are only open 10%


18 posted on 07/01/2015 3:41:46 PM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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I should add that the out-flow is about ten times the normal discharge. It jumped the Osage River below about six feet in an hour or two it took to open them.

In the 51 flooding they kept them closed as long as they could to help the Missouri river downstream of the Osage but when they did open them it was TWICE this flow and stayed open for a week as I remember my Dad’s account.


19 posted on 07/01/2015 4:10:17 PM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

oh, damn. I just looked at the radar for down there again.
Holy cow!


20 posted on 07/01/2015 9:45:07 PM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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