Looking at the DES data for today it appears the lake may be hitting a plateau. The level has remained constant for the last 8 or so hours and if we don't get any significant rainfall it should start coming down. The prediction I saw calls for some rain on Friday (in the AM) but I don't know how much is expected to fall. My guess is that by next weekend the lake will be high but not excessively, so a lake-wide NWZ won't be needed then. Guess we won't be breaking the all time record this year (which is fine by me).
What I'm thinking is how lucky we were that the lake started out low when the rains came. If it had been filled to a normal level we'd really be up the creek w/o a paddle*. Given the flood of last year and now this, I'm thinking of ways to be better prepared to handle high waters. It's not a question of if but only one of when. The Lakeport dam, and more limiting the downstream drainage, just doesn't have the capacity to handle these kinds of storms. This isn't going to change anytime soon, if ever. It's up to "us" to handle what Mother Nature dishes up.
*Either that or it's time to open a store - do you think
they are franchising ?
