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The Queets is over 87,500 cfs this morning, and still headed straight up...average flows for this date is 4,960 cfs!
Over here on the dryside, we had a foot of snow in our yard @ dinner time yesterday, 12 hours later it's all but gone, not much rain yet...but we had wind gust to 74 mph!
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dang 74 mph thats crazy did it take down any trees? we have a huge doug fir in our yard and that thing was swaying big time last night
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Yikes!!! not lookin good reminding me of the 96 flood!!!
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thats friggen nuts!! These kind of levels always change the river flow/holes, not to mention the roads to get to them.
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anybody want to sell some life vests?   
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Over here on the dryside, we had a foot of snow in our yard @ dinner time yesterday, 12 hours later it's all but gone, not much rain yet...but we had wind gust to 74 mph!
I heard about that from someone at the Yakima Training Center. She said she had 10" of snow Tuesday and woke up to 1" today.
I was supposed to head there and do some work, but the pass is closed so I guess I'll wait 'til next week.
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The Cowlitz is at 20000cfs and going up fast.
Edited by Fossil (01/07/09 10:15 AM)
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fishyness
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i wonder how its going to change the cow it might make the blue creek corner even more shallow
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It was in 96 when we lost or place on the Kalama, just like this. Our little piece of heaven turned into what looked like a Mt. St. Helen's blast zone.
I'm sure to pit toilets at Blue Creek ar getting a good douching.
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Satsop is at 36,600 and going straight up. The Hydraulic predictor has it going to 38.8 feet which is way above the Major Flood Stage. In 06 it was up to 37,500 and did a Hell'of a lot of damage. Marty's exactly right, our rivers will deffinately be changed when they drop back down. Going to get way worse by tonight and into tomorrow all over before it starts to turn and drop ..
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I'm sure it is going to destry all of this falls reds too.
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They tried to close the center off the universe, McCleary. Go figure.
Closed and re-opened Hwy 108 between Kamilche (Shelton)and McCleary twice, now it is closed again. Slides.
Closed Hwy between McCleary & Olympia. re-opened. Slides.
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deos the water make it up to parking lot at blue creek during flood events on the cowlitz? oh yeah i saw on the news about the winds out by rapid rob it was blowing semis over on the highway yikes!!!
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Puyallup is blowing wide open as we speek. 35,000 cfs in Alderton right now.
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the puyallup is gonna set a record
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That wind was killer down in Tillamook on Sunday. Yesterday I drove up Little River Road between Hurricane Ridge Rd and Black Diamond Rd out in Port Angeles and I could hardly get up that road with my big Dodge and 4WD. The ice alone was making my truck drive up the road sideways even at a slow crawl in 4WD. The other big problem were the trees that were downed left and right. It must have been from that windstorm Sunday night. I couldn't believe how bad it was up there. I had to keep going for a while until I found a place to turn around. My anti-lock brakes did absolutely nothing for coming down that last hill before Black Diamond Road and I thought I was going to end up tumbling down the clearcut above the farm fields. All that ice and snow is melting fast. I foresee the tribal lands at the mouth of the Elwha underwater.
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No worries, I will just have to turn the bottom of my driveway into a makeshift boat-launch when the 'halis decides to blow again. 
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deos the water make it up to parking lot at blue creek during flood events on the cowlitz? oh yeah i saw on the news about the winds out by rapid rob it was blowing semis over on the highway yikes!!!
you bet it does!
i just hope this round will change things for the better for bank fishing there...but who am i kidding, no flood in the last 20 years has done that on that river!
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Cow is over 30K cfs right now and still going up.
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fishyness
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hopefully it makes it better didnt the last flood change the corner big time i know there used to be some boulders in there but now they are gone also seems when low allot more skinnyier then years past
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the way the last couple high waters have gone, when this one's over, i wouldn't be surprised if you have to go right instead of left. 3 years ago you could wade across that side channel, now the thing's 6 feet deep in the summer!
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its going to be interesting how it pans out maybe it will push those boulder down stream on the blue creek side i hope theres not any slides on the clay banks
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i've seen BC area change very drastically over the years with these fast moving flows. some for the best.... then others that just piss a guy off.
whats very strange is how some rivers seem to maintain thier channels from year to year. while others just get wrecked.
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the worst part is that these floods never seem to change anything for the better on the rivers i fish. seems like every time there's a flood the rivers get shallower and the holes get filled in.
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hopefully it makes it better didnt the last flood change the corner big time i know there used to be some boulders in there but now they are gone also seems when low allot more skinnyier then years past
What the... are you serious? Those boulders near Blue Creek are gone? Those things were as big as cars!
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the way the last couple high waters have gone, when this one's over, i wouldn't be surprised if you have to go right instead of left. 3 years ago you could wade across that side channel, now the thing's 6 feet deep in the summer!
Really? That's actually pretty cool. I always liked that little side channel for spinner fishing. I bet if you find a boulder or downed tree, the fish will be stacked up thick in there and a float setup would kill 'em.
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maybe gone just thinking it would be crazy if they did blow out
btw check gamefishing somone posted a bunch of pics the water at bc is covering blue creek lane and spencer road and it flowing across the road at the stop sigh/y getting onto tucker road crazyness
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Whatcom County is shutting down one road at a time from flooding. The Samish had a big mudslide that shut down some businesses, and another mudslide took out a house. The Mt. Baker Hwy is shut down at from an avalanche.
What the hell is going on out there!??
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the worst part is that these floods never seem to change anything for the better on the rivers i fish. seems like every time there's a flood the rivers get shallower and the holes get filled in.
So very true. The last couple of years has made everything wide and flat. We need 10 years of normal flows to get everything to ditch back up...
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Look at the floods we got in the 1800s and early 1900s. They put the floods of the past 30-50yrs to shame. They had "100 year floods" every decade, sometimes twice a decade. That's how the rivers get how they are now.
I have also found that when the floods happen, my favorite holes often change for the worst. It seems like the river is ruined, but it's not. I learned to start fishing a flood-effected river as if it was my first time wetting a line there. Interestingly, more often than not, I found that the spots where fish were never holding ended up being the best holes. Makes sense in a way because rivers always follow a pattern of a flat, then a drop in elevation, then a flat, then a drop in elevation until sea level is reached. This creates tailouts, runs, slots, holes etc... The nice slots and holes get filled in, and the shallow wide stretches get carved out, so there is still a balance.
I've heard people talking about how X river used to be killer and the fish would stack up at Y hole but the previous year's flood ruined it. Having never fished that river before, I methodically worked the water and found the fish holding somewhere else. Those same people who said the river was ruined quickly moved in and were fishing shoulder to shoulder with me.
It gets boring fishing the same holes year after year. Don't you get all excited when you travel somewhere to fish a new river for the first time? I know I do! It'll be like fishing a new river. 
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