Spring Floods

[+StarBrand]

I heard the water was getting high - so I sent to check on one of my caches near the North Platte River near Scottsbluff Nebraska. Got to a barricade.

 

The cache is/was back behind the trees where the arrow points. The wood fence to the left marks the edge of a walk/bike path normally 3 feet above the river.

 

I'll just have to hope it hasn't floated away (tucked underneath a fallen tree.

 

Any photos for other flooded caches??

[+J the Goat]

I'm as dumb as CR's bag of hammers when it comes to posting pictures on these forums, but if you check out my log for GC189VT, you'll see the flood that resulted in our DNFing a cache. Not one of mine, but it's all I got

 

Edit for the linkity link

Edited May 17, 2011 by Family of Goats

[+StarBrand]

I'm as dumb as CR's bag of hammers when it comes to posting pictures on these forums, but if you check out my log for GC189VT, you'll see the flood that resulted in our DNFing a cache. Not one of mine, but it's all I got

 

Edit for the linkity link

Here you go...

[+captnemo]

Here in the Mojave we don't have to worry about floods, wind now that's a different matter!

[+StarBrand]

As if it wasn't bad enough - there is a flood watch and expecting 3 to 5 inches of rain over the next few days (keep in mind - we get about 15 inches annually).

River might rise a foot or two more..... Should put another 3 or 4 of my caches in harms way.

[+Medgasman]

Baton Rouge, LA Casino parking lot. GC2EKEG is a LPC just to the right of this shot. Water was expected to come up another 1-2 feet this week.

[Troutonthebrain]

Ours wasn't taken by a flood this year but does a tornado count! We don't have a photo, but a lot of us heard about the bad tornadoes in the United States this year. One of the Tornadoes in Minnesota went straight though the woods where we had an ammo can 1000th hide tribute cache. The park service hauled away all of the down trees and our cache (if the tornado didn't ). Now the former woods is just a field with a couple stumps. The worst park for us is that we can't replace the cache ! The rest of the park is filled up with other caches and our part of the park was the only part to get hit by the tornado and all the hinding spots are gone! Chalk up our first "muggled by tornado" .

[+catsnfish]

I couldn't get in for pics, but have disabled 2 ammocans, a micro and 2 EarthCaches in Dodge Park along the Missouri river and another EarthCache at the confluence of the Platte and Missouri. One of the Dodge Park EC's is about flood mitigation.

[+Coldgears]

Here in the Mojave we don't have to worry about floods, wind now that's a different matter!

Yep, lets hope that ammo box doesn't FLY away...

[+Sioneva]

I can't GET to the site of some of my (currently disabled) caches to take pictures of how flooded they are. I knew North Platte was getting it bad, but I didn't realize the Platte was in flood out by where you are, SB.

 

I'll try to get pics this weekend though. It's insane.

[+Ambrosia]

My cache, The Itty Bitty Island Cache is on an island that is flooded by the Columbia. They've been opening up the dams to allow the water to flow through in preparation for possibly worse flooding in the future. It's risen the river higher than I remember ever seeing it before. Normally, you don't see very much flooding on the Columbia since it's so dam controlled.

 

I placed this cache in a tree, partly because I was worried about possible flooding, although this is the first time I've seen it since placing the cache in 2003, lol. Now I appreciate the placement.

 

You can see in the picture how the river was higher, leaving debris over the little bridge. The bridge goes to the island, which is almost completely covered by water. Normally the water is about 5 feet or so below the bridge. Kayakers and canoers go under the bridge.

 

flooding by Ambrosia_apples, on Flickr

[+BaylorGrad]

Here's a great cache / series that was wiped out by excessive spring flooding. The COs are hoping against hope that the caches are still there... But there's not a chance in the world. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3b5e62b7-de8f-47d3-86b5-6ef956912cf1

[+StarBrand]

The River is up about 1 foot since I took the photo in the Opening Post. I'm nearly certain my cache is gone now. This video shows the same area towards the end.

 

 

and

 

[+StarBrand]

Overnight rains and higher river levels looks to have taken another of my caches but I cannot get there to tell for certain until the water goes down. Sigh.

[+JBnW]

Not the current flooding, but some of the aftermath of the Mississippi River flooding in southeast Missouri from earlier this spring.

 

 

That's the TOP of a center pivot irrigation system!

 

 

For scale.

 

Got the ark loaded?

[+zoltig]

I didn't take any pics but I recovered my cache "Tippy's Coffee Break" last week and the flood waters of the Cache La Poudre (hide the powder) was just hitting the ammo can. It was sitting in about 3 inches of water. This same cache is the one I replaced after it got washed away last year when the river flooded. Which by the way, some people down stream had found the cache in their yard.

[+Sioneva]

Pictures from Bellevue, NE

 

At least three of my caches are gone.

[+Sioneva]

Behold, Interstate River 29:

 

 

Omaha lies in the background. Many caches have drowned here.

[+StarBrand]

River is forecast to finally start dropping around here - as much as a foot or so over the next 2 weeks - due to the farmer's starting to irrigate.

 

Here is my local town last weekend at the highpoint: