The Gunnison River is flooding! Farms and ranches all along the river bottome are covered in water.
The peak is supposed to happen sometime next week. I know those people waiting for the water to go down will be more than glad.
Linda
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Oh boy, there’s a heap of water lying around isn’t there!
Each time I see those mountains in the background of your photos Linda, I’m enchanted. So pretty.
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Oh that water looks refreshing! We’re having a drought here in Georgia. It’s going to be a bad year for hay, or so they’re saying already. I’d happily play in the mud and the puddles the river is making right about now.
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Wow. Hope everyone will be okay.
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Runoff has turned into a non-event here in Steamboat. A friend spent a couple nights in the Zirkel’s up high and can’t believe how much snow was still left.
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Don’t get me wrong here with the question I’m about to ask. But why on earth was there such investment in that area of Colorado just after the turn of the 20th century. I’ve just looked up the river on the wiki. And they were building irrigation tunnels in what amounts to Steppe and cutting railways left and right to save a few pounds and a three day walk for cattle.
I know the State was awash with cash from the silver but were they really casting it about with that level of abandon.
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I tell you, this has been one crazy season! Seems like no matter where you are you can get flooded!
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Not at all what it looked like in January 2010 when I last drove by there. It is always pretty, even in flood.
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That long wet winter is really melting into a big mess everywhere. Your flooding looks a lot like the river bottoms around here. The Snake River is breaking records for high water and a lot of pastures and farms are turning into swamps. There are even a few people who wish they’d listened to the warnings about building down next to the river.
Hope the flood crest comes and goes there without doing too much damage.
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Looks like home this year! Great for mosquitos!
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Fires, floods, snow on the peaks in mid-June – what’s next? Is this much above the ‘normal’ spring swell?
Hoping and praying that all is well out there…
(If the locusts show up, run!)
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Snow pack melting or rains? I have been up and down that river many times as a child while my dad fished it.
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