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Thread: Surgin' Virgin
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12-21-2010, 05:50 AM #1
Surgin' Virgin
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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12-21-2010 05:50 AM # ADS
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12-21-2010, 06:34 AM #2
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!!!!!!!!!!
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12-21-2010, 07:48 AM #3
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!"
I wonder how many lacked the common sense to avoid rebuilding and are going to lose their houses again.seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way...
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12-21-2010, 09:43 AM #4
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.
WinQuoting my best friend, Bob McNally, after a bad boating trip: "Nature scares me!"
Utah photos: www.winpics.fototime.com
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12-21-2010, 10:35 AM #5
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12-21-2010, 10:41 AM #6
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.
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12-21-2010, 11:10 AM #7
Thanks Shane. That means Gunlock will definitely have it's overflowing waterfalls in the spring! So awesome when it does!
●Canyoneering 'Canyon Conditions' @ www.candition.com
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"He who walks on the edge...will eventually fall."
"There are two ways to die in the desert - dehydration and drowning." -overhearing a Park Ranger at Capitol Reef N.P.
"...the first law of gear-dynamics: gear is like a gas - it will expand to fit the available space." -Wortman, Outside magazine.
"SEND IT, BRO!!"
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12-21-2010, 11:30 AM #8
surf's up!!
But if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.
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12-21-2010, 11:45 AM #9
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.●Canyoneering 'Canyon Conditions' @ www.candition.com
●Hiking Treks (my younger brother's website): hiking guides @ www.thetrekplanner.com
"He who walks on the edge...will eventually fall."
"There are two ways to die in the desert - dehydration and drowning." -overhearing a Park Ranger at Capitol Reef N.P.
"...the first law of gear-dynamics: gear is like a gas - it will expand to fit the available space." -Wortman, Outside magazine.
"SEND IT, BRO!!"
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12-21-2010, 12:32 PM #10
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12-21-2010, 12:32 PM #11
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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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12-21-2010, 12:57 PM #12
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12-21-2010, 01:08 PM #13
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
Quoting my best friend, Bob McNally, after a bad boating trip: "Nature scares me!"
Utah photos: www.winpics.fototime.com
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12-21-2010, 01:09 PM #14
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.
Hope it does ok with all the rain, flooding is a terrible thing so I hope all are safe.-------
Jeff
"Be who you are, say what you feel.
Because those that mind don't matter and,
those that matter don't mind"
~Dr. Suess~
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12-21-2010, 02:11 PM #15
The Evacuated Zion RV Park
The Park right by the Virgin in Springdale
Dry Creek beds flowing into the Virgin
Mosquito Cove
Bridge Just outside of Virgin
Some trapped cows near that bridge
Up Kolob Terrace Drive
Overlooking the River from La Verkin
From Bridge near Pah Tempe (full size trees floating down the river)
Looking down on Interstate Rock (road closed) near the Bridge above the Virgin in between Hurricane and St. George
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12-21-2010, 02:23 PM #16
Crazy bunch of water.
Thanks for the photo's!
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12-21-2010, 02:45 PM #17
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.
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12-21-2010, 02:49 PM #18
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12-21-2010, 02:54 PM #19
Wow
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12-21-2010, 03:22 PM #20
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