Currently at 5220 CFS. I'm going down today to check it out.
The 21 year average for this time period is usually 50 CFS.
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Currently at 5220 CFS. I'm going down today to check it out.
The 21 year average for this time period is usually 50 CFS.
Had a fella call yesterday and ask if the Tyrolean was still stretched across the river down at the Lower VRG. I told him no and asked why? He said because he was comin' down to run the Gorge at 7000CFS and had heard that the tyrolean presented a problem at high water! I hope no one has reconstructed that highline in the last week? Some big water for kayakers and boaters this week!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by oldno7
I was down there for a spring cycling retreat the last time the Virgin hit these levels. Most of the houses that were built right next to the river (against warnings from the locals) had already washed away before we arrived but I did get to watch watch one corner of one house shift about five feet to lean ever more precariously over the flow.
The sign on the house next to it (already damaged enough to condemn) said "FOR SAIL!" :lol8:
I wonder how many lacked the common sense to avoid rebuilding and are going to lose their houses again.
Oh yeah, it's raining in Toquerville. LaVerkin Cr is roaring. Yo was having trouble going to sleep last night, the crashing of boulders in the creek was so loud. I'm pretty deaf to that and slept like a baby.
Win
Not being from SW Utah, this thread title brings something else to mind. And then this:
We'll expect a trip report with pictures. :naughty: Hope everyone is safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldno7
Video here:
Virgin River flooding - State of Emergency declared
Flooding Updates as of 11:30 (21/21) from Washington County Emergency Services:
- St George mayor declares state of emergency
- gunlock dam intact
- for all who need sand bags, Home Depot in Washington has aprox 4000 bags and a couple tons of sand
- Zion National Park is now closed
- Sandbags are being dropped near Enterprise Reservoir
- Foot bridge out at Sunbrook golf course.
- Enterprise reservoir has not yet flooded. Old highway 120 in Enterprise is being sandbagged. Shoal creek is currently about 4 feet below the new bridge.
- New Harmony: the water is wearing away at the road at 2500 South in New Harmony at the bridge.
- Moody wash on Gunlock road has lost 20 to 30 feet of approach to the bridge. It is not passible.
- Old highway 91 Bridge has debris buildup and damming water.
- 1/2 of the road is washed out on Old Highway 91 at mile post 6.
- There are multiple large potholes developing on Interstate 15 at approximately mile marker 32 south bound.
- Zion Park Lodge is being evacuated due to slide area danger.
- Central Area Road is Flooding and is closed.
- Butch Cassidy/ Frontier road is closed.
- There is a single Residence Threatened in Ivins.
- SR-9 at Zion National Park is closed.
- Cole/Manganese Road is closed.
- General Steam Road is closed.
- Slaughter Creek int he Motoqua Area is closed.
- Virgin River Trail (St. George) is closed.
Thanks Shane. That means Gunlock will definitely have it's overflowing waterfalls in the spring! So awesome when it does!
surf's up!!
I'm sure mosquito cove will be flooded - hopefully it will flush out all the poo in there.
And maybe all this flooding will flush all the sand out of the Subway? wishful thinking...yup.
Wow. KSL radio is saying Springdale, and Rockville are being evacuated for an expected dam break upriver (sorry cant remember the ranch dam name and I pulled over to post rather than look it up).
Be safe, but somebody get some video!
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I hope my Grandma's house does not get washed away! Its right on the very edge of the East Fork. I always worry about it, but this rain has been going for days now. I am talking walk out the back door and you are on the edge of the river close!
http://www.zionnational-park.com/zio...ntal-house.htm
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Originally Posted by jman
I ran out at Noon and took a couple of quick pictures of LaVerkin Creek in my subdivision. You can usually walk across this in sandals and not get your feet wet!
My prayers go out to the people affected by this.
Win
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Is that your Grandma's house Tanya? It's gorgeous! Wish I would have known about that when we had our group out there this summer. Camping is ok but there will be a bed and shower the next time we're out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by tanya
Hope it does ok with all the rain, flooding is a terrible thing so I hope all are safe.
The Evacuated Zion RV Park
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The Park right by the Virgin in Springdale
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Dry Creek beds flowing into the Virgin
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Bridge Just outside of Virgin
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Some trapped cows near that bridge
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Up Kolob Terrace Drive
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Overlooking the River from La Verkin
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From Bridge near Pah Tempe (full size trees floating down the river)
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Looking down on Interstate Rock (road closed) near the Bridge above the Virgin in between Hurricane and St. George
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Crazy bunch of water.
Thanks for the photo's!
KSL or FOX should hire Bogley for their reporters.... the stuff you guys have provided is as good or better then what I've seen on the news.
Thanks for posting. :2thumbs:
I was "evacuated" out of the national park, well ok they wouldnt let me in. Which left me with several hours to rubberneck the Virgin River.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Wow
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X2. Great stuff. Much better than what I have seen on the news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
I'm not positive, but I believe this is the dam that is threatened.
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very nice!
Looks like the dam is going to hold
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50...state.html.csp
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wait where?Quote:
Originally Posted by mattandersao
Just back, what an epic.
Heres a start
Sum mor
1) Zion River resort
2) Off the Rockville Bridge
3) House on the bend between Rockville and Tree's Farm
4) Canyon Junction Bridge, looking up river
5) Canyon Juntion Bridge towards the Watchman
6) LOL
few moor
1) Just off the Highway
2) North Cr. Were the houses got flooded in 05
3) Waterfall just above the left fork trailhead
Last for now
1) Ash Cr. Just entering Toquerville
2) LaVerkin Cr. Bottom of Cholla Ranch
3) Barn on far side of river in Virgin
4) Mosquito Cove
5) Upriver off the Rockville Bridge
6) House on the river just below Tree's Ranch
Yes, my Grandma use to live there when she was alive. The center is the cabin she gave birth to her children in. 2 of the cabins are the original ones from Zion Canyon. She built all that into her home. Even when she was alive she rented the outer rooms to guests. Now we rent the entire house. Its a great place for groups to stay. I thought about using it for a Bogleyfest before. Perhaps the next one!
If its still there after this week! We checked it many times today, and so far its okay. The motel next to it is taking a beating to the little land behind that. That is where 2 of my Grandma's kids drowned in a flash flood about 1940.
Great photos Kurt! Thanks for posting them!
My Grandma's history
http://www.zionnational-park.com/hist.htm
A few from St George
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And a few from Zion on Sunday
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Wow! What a GREAT GREAT GREAT ZION Photograph!!!!
Not sure how to copy it to this post, but the 3rd from the bottom. Love it!
That last one too. Dang! We are getting some real photographers in here. I need to retire my old camera. lol
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awesome stuff guys.
Please look some spherical panoramas of small flood in Zion NP in august 2010:
http://www.gigapano.net/pano/zion/flood.html
Be patient, panorama is 3.5 MB big.
Nice :) I'm jealous of all you locals. Anyone want to take an inflatable kayak and go hop in the subway? I keep trying to get a permit but their site is down for maintenance!!!
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(I'm mostly kidding... I'd look into it more seriously if I wasn't busy with christmas family plans - and after looking into it seriously would probably not end up going)
Be interesting to see how the iconic log holds up with all this flooding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryebrye
Oh no! Not the log.
I think we should set up a wager. I am betting its still there at the end of the week! :lol8: