Who Is Not Welcome In Branson

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The lake's come up 7 feet in the last 35 hours. No major release yet.

I've the docks up as far as they will go . . . to the trees.

Still raining.

Hopefully it won't be as bad as a few years ago when they had all the serious damage. Heck, The Suite's at Fall Creek just got their new dock that replaced to old one this past year. I'd hate to see them, and everyone else along Tannycomo, lose everything again.

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Taneycomo is going to get hit again. It's already in the fountains at BL and the campground is flooded. The major release from Table Rock is yet to come.

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That's 13 1/2 inches in four days.

That's 16 inches now.

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Taneycomo is going to get hit again. It's already in the fountains at BL and the campground is flooded. The major release from Table Rock is yet to come.

In the fountains never surprises me. It doesn't seem to take much to get into the fountains. Now, getting into the homes, breaking docks loose et....doesn't happen all that often. I remember they had a couple of pieces of heavy earth moving equipment holding that floating restaurant at Branson landing in place.

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Taneycomo is going to get hit again. It's already in the fountains at BL and the campground is flooded. The major release from Table Rock is yet to come.

Table Rock opens spillway...

Table Rock opens spillway | Springfield News-Leader | News-Leader.com

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Well true. I guess I should have specified that by my backyard I meant, Timeshares close to my home.

So what is your point? Lots of people can do that.

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That's 16 inches now.

Not raining today, but starting again tonight.

There's no sense trying to keep track any more . . . . Table Rock is our of control. An hour ago it hit the all time record level set in April three years ago, and still coming up.

All that can be done with the docks has been, and it will be awhile before we can get back on them from land.

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OK, so I am still counting. 16.7 inches and the next storm just started. Severe lightning. Our dog is freaked.

Lake level and flooding is unprecendented.

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Not Welcome at Home Either

JLB,

Sorry you can't reach your dock. We normally live due east on the AR MO state line near Current River, but we had to abandon our house Saturday due to water rising over the highway. The Easter Bunny loaded up so fast he even left a few things behind in the move to the river place. We abandoned our vacation place on Current River Monday for my in-laws farm house. Today we fled my in-laws home in a boat due to rising water. We helped several neighbors needing a ride out along the way and back a few times. Now we are waiting at a hotel in Poplar Bluff for more flooding and tornadoes. They only have availability for 3 nights, but hopefully this will be enough. We were going to evacuate to Long Creek or Big Cedar, but the wife did not go for my idea. I could have extended our stay for free at LC if nobody took a single night. We would have felt safer in the big basement. Oh well, dry at last, dry at last.

Mark R. "usually the R doesn't stand for refugee"

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I know where you're at. DW is from Alton and was there this past weekend. We have a cabin and second lot on the Eleven Point at Myrtle, 1 mile above the AR line.

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JLB - I assume that when they release the water like that, it's to prevent flooding on Table Rock, right? And that in turn, causes more flooding problems below on Tanneycomo? Is that how it works?

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JLB - I assume that when they release the water like that, it's to prevent flooding on Table Rock, right? And that in turn, causes more flooding problems below on Tanneycomo? Is that how it works?

Broke the old record all to heck: 27APR2011 0700 935.03

Release is to prevent catastrophic failure of the dam(s). I won't even describe what that would mean (a wall of water 100-200 feet high). The high water works on the earthen portion of the dam(s).

There is a fairly new emergency spillway if it is necessary.

There was a sizable mudslide on the Table Rock dam, but they say it is not a danger. Not wanting to take a side, but these are the same folks who brought us New Orleans.

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27APR2011 0900 935.19

It's still coming up.

I rode a piece of dock foam through and under the vegetation to one of the docks. A three foot rise is significant at any level, so there was tremendous strain/stress on the cables. That caused at least one death that I know of during the 2008 high water. It was really hard to let some cable out, but I did.

I could hear people talking in their big lake voices, "It's ripped the hardware right off."

"The winch?"

"Yeah."

So, there will be some meandering docks.

It was close to the Kim City bidge mid-afternoon yesterday, so it's gotta be right up there today. The bridge approach on the south will be under a lot of stress/strain.

Hope folks use a bit of common sense.

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Missouri

April

How are the weather conditions in nearby Nixa and Springfield Missouri

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Not as potentially dangerous as here.