Flood Pics

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fishshooter

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I'm sure a lot of you have been experiencing the same weather patterns that we have for the past week. The incredible amount of rain in the Southeast has resulted in a fair amount of localised flooding. Here are a few pics from our fish camp on the Dead Lakes in Northwest Florida.

My wife fishing LAST Sunday (3/28/09) from our dock, the water is a good five feet below the walk:
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The same spot yesterday, (4/04/09) :
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Her and I fishing in the same spot yesterday, this time from a boat:

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This pic is from last summer, notice the totem pole in the background:

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This is the same area yesterday, notice the same totem pole behind Dad's head:

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Retrieving the pontoon boat, no boat ramp in sight:


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You can see the end of the dock behind me in this pic from last summer:

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Here it is yesterday:

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Wow man i hope you didnt lose anything in the floods.. That is amazing..
 
I know just how you feel. Hopefully you didn't lose anything in the flooding like I did though.
 
Our primary residence is about 30 miles away, my parent's house is about 10 miles away. So all of us were O.K.. Most the places around this area are weekend getaways or retirees with other homes. But,the water would still have to come up several feet to get to the little house on our property:

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But there were some that got it:

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I have several friends that live in the area that were forced out of their primary residences, or have to get back and forth by boat. All of their places are on the water also, but are either on stilts or built on bluffs or hills, so no risk of water actually in the houses.
 
Ive fished the dead lakes in 1980. There was an article in Bassmaster magazine about it. I caught a lot of two to four lb bass.
 
dipbait said:
Ive fished the dead lakes in 1980. There was an article in Bassmaster magazine about it. I caught a lot of two to four lb bass.
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It's changed a bit since then, not the fishing, but they took out the dam at the south end back in the 90's. So now you can go out to the Apalachicola River to the National Forest, all the way to Apalach Bay if you want. The water level fluctuates a lot now, makes for a healthier ecosystem all around.
 
Excellent comparison pictures. Makes you really appreciate the volume of water going through there. Thanks for posting them.
 
I hope I do not sound too ignorant, but I have heard that the southeast was experiencing drought. I wish we could get some of that water in So Cal.
 
cj65 said:
I hope I do not sound too ignorant, but I have heard that the southeast was experiencing drought. I wish we could get some of that water in So Cal.
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It has. It has gotten better. Last couple of summers have been real bad. This is the result of a week of torrential rain, the water table locally was already close to normal, then five straight days of storms...
 
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