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Topic: FLOOD!!
Posted By: Hawktique
Subject: FLOOD!!
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 3:25pm
Our lake (Lake Delhi) is flooding! The state would not let the dam open up because of a fair 20 miles down river. Now the water may wash out the road around the dam! Lake Delhi is around 7 miles long, 200yds wide. Home to over 70 CC's. Most of which are in danger. I already know my uncle's 97 is gone, my grandmas house is submerged to the roof. My dad's is on the high ground so not in any danger. I will post pics when I get back from the lake.

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Posted By: hotboat
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 5:14pm
Wow that doesnt sound right I hope you and yours make it through unscathed

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 6:27pm
Mine is safe in the driveway. The dam has collapsed, and around 70 boats have gone down. A couple dozen CC's have gone.

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Posted By: behindpropeller
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 6:39pm
SOunds like you are going to lose your ski spot!

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Posted By: behindpropeller
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 6:46pm
Originally posted by Hawktique Hawktique wrote:

Our lake (Lake Delhi) is flooding! The state would not let the dam open up because of a fair 20 miles down river.


Sounds like your state made a pretty serious mistake. Once it starts failing....you can't stop it.

Tim

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Posted By: eric lavine
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 6:48pm
cant replace people

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Posted By: behindpropeller
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 6:51pm
Originally posted by eric lavine eric lavine wrote:

cant replace people



Opening it with a controlled flow would have been much better than the breach.

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Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 7:45pm
Closing a fair would have been better than losing a lake for a year or more. This is a crying shame, knowing personally how many cool old CC's are on that lake! I was supposed to meet Josh up there a week from Monday to ski, but obviously that's not happening. Sounds like I may be going up to help in the relief efforts!

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Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 7:50pm
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Lake-Delhi-Dam-Has-Been-Compromised-99164894.html - Lake Delhi dam news report
What a shame due to officials not letting out a controlled flow.

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Posted By: seacamper
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 9:50pm
It looks very bad on the news. Prayers for all concerned! Please keep us posted and if there is anything we can do!
Tom

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 10:40pm


Phil Thompson (70CC)'s Cabin. He saved his nautique before the flood hit.


This is just after the dam breach.


15min after the last pic.


My boat lift. Thankfully it's in the driveway after GL'10. These pics of my place are 1-2 hours after the dam breach, and the water is down at least 10 feet from in the morning.


another pic of my lift.


unfortunate pic, one of a few CC's.


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Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 10:52pm
Originally posted by Hawktique Hawktique wrote:


Phil Thompson (70CC)'s Cabin. He saved his nautique before the flood hit.

Oh man!! I emailed Phil after you first posted the problem wondering if he had a issue. Confirmed he is affected too.

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 11:03pm
He is, I'm pretty sure his place was about a foot away from being flooded. I talked to him and he said he was able to get his boat out and docks secured to the shore. I'll be up tomorrow to see where the water level is. It was supposed to crest around 8pm central time. The dame levy failing may have actually saved quite a bit of property damage.

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Posted By: SNobsessed
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 11:09pm
Josh - What a tragic turn of events.    I have some attachment to the area because I learned to ski at Freddy's beach in 1961.    We also bought our SN from a Lake Delhi resident.

I am glad your boat is OK & hopefully your uncle's is insured.

I have never seen so much rain in July!

Our lake/river is flooded too.



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Posted By: skicat2001
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 11:15pm
Josh,
I am sorry to hear this. I really enjoyed speaking with you a couple of weeks ago. Glad you and the others are ok, but what a disaster! What awful pics there of it. My thoughts and prayers there to you and the family. Be glad that beautiful boat was not under the lift...

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 11:21pm
At the end of the day, it's all just money. That's what my dad says. Luckily it's just property loss. I just hope for a speedy recovery of the lake so we can all get back to enjoying boating, no matter what you own.

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 11:23pm
It was heartbreaking for me to break the news to Storm (Chris Mars). He had the place next to my dads rented for the first week of Aug and looks forward to that trip every year.

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Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: July-24-2010 at 11:34pm
This levee blow out is very similar to the lake Delton (Wis.) issue a couple years ago. They got it fixed and the lake was back up to the norm within a year. I'm just saying this so you keep your hopes up for a recovery.

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Posted By: OverMyHead
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 4:29am
Josh, what a bad deal, glad the boat is ok but what a mess to deal with. All the more personal after meeting you at green lake. I know your the kind of guy to handle it though. Best of wishes. Dave.

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Posted By: connorssons
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 11:52am
Sorry to hear the bad news, if there is anything we can do let us know Jeff


Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 12:39pm
Originally posted by connorssons connorssons wrote:

Sorry to hear the bad news, if there is anything we can do let us know Jeff


Same here Josh, let me know if you need anything. We'll reschedule our trip this year and hope for Delhi in 2011! Keep us updated with pictures. If you need another clean-up hand give me a call, I already have next week off

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 1:01pm
Thank you all for the support. On the bright side, this will allow us to rebuild even better. I'm sure we'll get it all cleaned up and ready for 2011. I just may have to hit up the Lake Clinton reunion to get some good skiing in now.

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Posted By: ski247
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 1:07pm
Hopefully everything works out. Good luck.

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Posted By: TX Foilhead
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 2:20pm
Wow, that sucks, we had a similar flood about a month ago just north of San Antonio. Same damage and loss of boats but the dams involved are built to have water spill over so they were fine.

With a little bit of looking around it appears that the dam was in bad shape to begin with and they weren't spilling as much as they could have if everything was in proper working order. I work at a a series of dams so this kind of thing is very interesting to me. Our dams were not in the best shape 20 years ago and we began a very expensive project of re-anchoring, rebuilding and replacing almost everything. I live below a lake that holds about a million acre feet of water when full so I really don't want something like this to happen.


Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 2:39pm
Don,
It's very interesting with you working with dams however I think in this case nothing could be done due to the amount of rain that fell in such a short period of time. Yes, maybe a spillway may have helped pass more water than the actual gates could handle but it looks like no spillway was incorporated in this dam structure. Or, it was removed!! The dam that controls the chain I'm on up in northern Wisconsin, had the spillway removed I'd say 15 years ago when they build a coffer damn and did some HD work on the dam itself. The story I heard is there's no control of a spillway and if it does come to play, the water over it can really affect the people down stream.

I do wonder if Josh's first statement regarding the fact that the officials didn't want to flood out the fair downstream comes to play?? It's a interesting concept and the truth will probably never come out!!

With our problem up north and our extreme 120 year low water this spring the truth did come out. It was a miscalculation/human error!!! Bad snow pack figures!!!

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 3:23pm
I'm not sure if there would have been enough time to drain the ammount of water needed to prepare for the surge. Upstream got in the neighborhood of 10" of rain the previous night. Who knows?

Here are some good videos I found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmB1NW7wPs - Dam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCXRX9jzIE - long video

Also, here is the level chart, we are now around 10' below the normal level.


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Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 4:20pm
Thats unreal! Such a shame

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Posted By: tnplicky
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 4:21pm
How devestating. Sorry to hear of all the damage.


Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 4:26pm
Josh, didn't you say they drain the lake once in a while to do maintenance and dredging? Hopefully they can take care of some other stuff while they are fixing the dam. Have you heard of any recovery plans?

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Posted By: TX Foilhead
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 5:08pm
That's gonna take a little more than just the usual maintenance. The bad thing is with all the mtg that has left the country nobody has the capability to do some of this stuff real quick anymore. They don't make anything until you order it and then there might be a wait because of the very small staff that they have. The goo news is that it looks like the earten parts are what failed and that can be fixed relatively quickly. Hopefully with the rehab process that was already going on the other stuff will be ready fairly quick.


Posted By: TX Foilhead
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 8:56pm
Pete,
Some of the pics and articles I found showed that one of the flood gates closed, and I don't know that the others were fully open. Another article stated that they hoped to have the generators back in operation in a couple of years, and there had been some previous damage to the structure form earlier floods this year. They weren't spilling water like they were supposed to be able to do, but there is always the chance that that would not have been enough. Spillways are the last resort and might not have save anything that was on the lake, but may have saved the dam.

Just trying to spread a little insite, lakes are pretty important to most around hear, it will be interesting to get back to work and find out some more.


Posted By: SN206
Date Posted: July-25-2010 at 9:33pm
Hell, I'm in one of the most remote parts of Whyoming for work and heard people talking about this! It would seen the news does not protray the magnitude of the event. Sorry to hear about your loss.

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Posted By: PLBC
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 12:20am
Hang in there guys, that looks terrible.

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Posted By: 70CC
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 2:02am
Just got back from Delhi. We went from having a lake in front of the cabin, to the highest water levels recorded, to a river that is 10 feet lower than the lake all in 48 hours. Cherie, Helaina, and I are fine and as Josh already said the water got within about a foot of flooding our porch before the road next to the Dam gave way. Josh - that picture of the cabin is amazing considering we should have about 12 feet of bank leading down to the water.

Most of our neighbors on our road were not as lucky as we were and lost all of the contents of their homes or cabins. It was heart breaking to see all of their personal belongings ruined. Thank God no one was hurt in this disaster.

We are hoping that it won't be too long before the lake comes back. Josh - glad you and your Dad are OK. Sorry to hear about your uncle's boat.

-Phil

An LP tank leaking as it zips down the river. At least one of these exploded as it went over the dam.


Dock floating next to an air bubble trapped in the canopy of our boat lift.


Aftermath and the sand bar that is where we used to have about 3 feet of water.



Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 2:40am
Thanks for the update Phil, Glad everything on your end is alright. If either of you need a hand this week or next week, let me know and I will gladly come help out.

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Posted By: mdvalant
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 12:59pm
Unbelievable :( I was at Midwest Regionals all weekend and The Delhi team couldn't even attend. Awful situation.

Sorry Hawktique. Marty Menge is there helping out too.

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Posted By: skutsch
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 2:57pm
Missed this thread, been following in the news and on Facebook. Glad all the CCF'rs are okay and safe. It is a shame How did Hartwick Marina fair? Any chance to recover any of the CC that got loose?

Reading some of the news reports sounds like they are still questioning whether they rebuild, placing the decision at the foot of the lake association to fund. That is a bunch of Hooey, especially if the state would not let them open the flood gates. Need to be some serious negotiations going on about that! I sure hope the state or feds come through with some aid, I would hate to see Delhi go away.

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Posted By: mdvalant
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 2:59pm
The marina had water about halfway up the roof....fully submerged. Not sure how many of their boats they got out. I "heard" they lost a couple brand new CC's in the show room/shed but not sure if that's true or not.

I agree that it needs to be rebuilt. Too many people's lifestyle down the drain there.

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 3:05pm
Unfortunately it sounds like the Lake is soon to become public enemy number one. The media is harping on "private dam owned by the homeowners on the lake" as the cause. In all actuality, the state built the dam in the 20's to help flood control, and is a hydro-electric dam. They recently pushed the association to buy it so they could take it out of their budget. At the same time, the state wouldn't allow it to be a private lake. The public roadway/levy broke, not the dam. And it is the state who says to open and how much. The governor did vow to rebuild though.

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Posted By: mdvalant
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 3:08pm
I heard all the same things Hawk. Thanks for clarifying. I knew you would know a little more about it than myself.

I hope Chet helps Delhi rebuild it all.

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Posted By: skutsch
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 3:13pm
Media better go back through and read its own stories! Several said the Homeowners Association did an excellent job keeping the maintenance up to date on the damn. Josh, like you said it seems, the issues seem to be with the levy and roadway and it sounds like the state was still responsible for those. Keep us up to date on how it goes, you know how it is with us native Iowan's - the whole you can take the boy out of IA thing...

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Posted By: mdvalant
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 3:15pm
Hawk, Marty and Brian said Marty's teal '92 went through the dam :( Bet you had quite a few pulls behind that in your day no?

That made me pretty sad.

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Posted By: behindpropeller
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 3:23pm
So lets see some more pics.



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Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 4:03pm
Got an inside track with Chet and heard he is pushing strongly for them to rebuild. I hope Hartwick can recover and rebuild bigger and better. It would be a shame to see a company with that much history go down like this. I can't imagine all the history that is already lost with all the old boats up there.

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Posted By: Lvnspeed
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 9:17pm
Dude this suck I am sorry to hear it.

Not to be a jeck but what happens to the boats that are flooded? Any way to find out where they go? I would love to get my hands on a newer v-drive boat.


Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 9:47pm
Originally posted by Lvnspeed Lvnspeed wrote:

Dude this suck I am sorry to hear it.

Not to be a jeck but what happens to the boats that are flooded? Any way to find out where they go? I would love to get my hands on a newer v-drive boat.

Sorry here but you may need to clarify what a "jeck" is??? Jerk??

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Posted By: skicat2001
Date Posted: July-26-2010 at 10:31pm
I got to see more of this tragic story on the weather channel earlier. Saw a CC floating down the river, what a sad sight. Hope things get better there...

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 1:17am
I saw boats around 4 miles downstream in farm fields. The land owners are instructed to report anything on their property (description, registration #'s, etc.) Then most likely the insurance companies will take possession when they pay out.

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Posted By: Lvnspeed
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 1:09pm
Originally posted by skicat2001 skicat2001 wrote:

I got to see more of this tragic story on the weather channel earlier. Saw a CC floating down the river, what a sad sight. Hope things get better there...


sorry I ment Jerk...

Does anyone know what happens to these boats after the insurance companies pay off the currect owners? I would love to get my grubby paws on a nice v-drive boat.


Posted By: skicat2001
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 1:34pm
Originally posted by Lvnspeed Lvnspeed wrote:

Originally posted by skicat2001 skicat2001 wrote:

I got to see more of this tragic story on the weather channel earlier. Saw a CC floating down the river, what a sad sight. Hope things get better there...


sorry I ment Jerk...

Does anyone know what happens to these boats after the insurance companies pay off the currect owners? I would love to get my grubby paws on a nice v-drive boat.



Who you calling a jerk, jerk? I think you are missing the point dude (no name) people on this site our suffering and you are looking to benefit. Find out some where else goofy ass...

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Posted By: TRBenj
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 1:36pm
Lee, you really need to learn how to read.

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Posted By: mdvalant
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 1:37pm
[/QUOTE]Who you calling a jerk, jerk? I think you are missing the point dude (no name) people on this site our suffering and you are looking to benefit. Find out some where else goofy ass... [/QUOTE]

Thanks SkiCat :) My buddy's old '92 196 which he had for about 10 years went through the dam we hear. Doesn't matter if it's not even yours anymore, it still hurts!

And yea, newbie dude was calling himself a jerk. So, I'll give him that at least ;)

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Posted By: skicat2001
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 1:59pm
Originally posted by TRBenj TRBenj wrote:

Lee, you really need to learn how to read.


TR,
I understand but I wuz looking his main point. He wants to find out where these boats go, and get his grubby hands on a v-drive. While people are watching there joy, hard work, and family fun float away for no reason because a damb decideds to break. And a A-Hole like that got to benefit off people's sadness. Thats why I replied like that.

It's like that commercial Cheez It crackers, go get your own box...

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Posted By: Mojo
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 2:00pm
Wow you guys, that completely sucks.. Sure things can be rebuilt better, but all cabins and classic boats have history and a story behind them. All because of ownership and fingerpointing.... And all over a frigg'n summer carnival. What BS..

Josh, Phil, Chris, let us know if any of us can help in any way..

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Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 2:00pm
Originally posted by skicat2001 skicat2001 wrote:

Originally posted by Lvnspeed Lvnspeed wrote:

Originally posted by skicat2001 skicat2001 wrote:

I got to see more of this tragic story on the weather channel earlier. Saw a CC floating down the river, what a sad sight. Hope things get better there...


sorry I ment Jerk...

Does anyone know what happens to these boats after the insurance companies pay off the currect owners? I would love to get my grubby paws on a nice v-drive boat.



Who you calling a jerk, jerk? I think you are missing the point dude (no name) people on this site our suffering and you are looking to benefit. Find out some where else goofy ass...

Lee,
Well said.    Yes, he did miss the point - benefiting from others misfortunes!

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Posted By: skicat2001
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 2:01pm
Originally posted by mdvalant mdvalant wrote:

Who you calling a jerk, jerk? I think you are missing the point dude (no name) people on this site our suffering and you are looking to benefit. Find out some where else goofy ass... [/QUOTE]

Thanks SkiCat :) My buddy's old '92 196 which he had for about 10 years went through the dam we hear. Doesn't matter if it's not even yours anymore, it still hurts!

And yea, newbie dude was calling himself a jerk. So, I'll give him that at least ;)[/QUOTE]

You bet...

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Posted By: skutsch
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 2:24pm
Originally posted by Hawktique Hawktique wrote:

I saw boats around 4 miles downstream in farm fields. The land owners are instructed to report anything on their property (description, registration #'s, etc.) Then most likely the insurance companies will take possession when they pay out.


So back to the matter at hand. Josh, when you saw these boats was there any hope for restoring them. Since there appears to be so many CC's that were damaged, and with the expertise of the people on this site, all the offers to help, and generally being geographically close, what about setting up a weekend to help do some restorative efforts. We could hold a mini reunion near Delhi, and help owners restore the boats. It would be a mini reunion centered around tech sessions that help put these boats back together, lots of hands on experience. Undoubtedly their is a lot of damage to the underwater hardware, which their is a lot of expertise on this site.   I guess we would need to have someone see who needs help and what each boat needs. It would take a lot of coordination, but it would sure be a neat way to help out these folks.

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Posted By: Hawktique
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 2:48pm
I didn't get close to get any looks. Most of the boats will be on private property. The state parks just downstream are closed, and too muddy to be able to do any hiking. I'll wait a good week or so and stick to the public areas to get a good look. Even though the lake is gone, the stream is still in flood stages.

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Posted By: buzz
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 5:47pm
              TO ALL WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS TRAGEDY PERSONALY , We are saddened by the pictures and video's. These image's are worse than I,and most people would have believed. Our thought's and prayer's are with everyone.

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Posted By: Randy_in_Ohio
Date Posted: July-27-2010 at 7:25pm
This is a sad story indeed. My heart goes out to all of those affected... and all of those lost classic CC's

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http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1602&yrstart=1991&yrend=1995" rel="nofollow - 1993 Sport Nautique



Posted By: SNobsessed
Date Posted: July-28-2010 at 1:07am


A photo from today's newspaper.

Mother nature always gets her way . . .

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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

Ben Franklin


Posted By: behindpropeller
Date Posted: July-28-2010 at 1:02pm
Just saw some more pics of the dam. My guess is they will need to tear out the original dam and build from scratch.

Tim

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Posted By: skicat2001
Date Posted: July-28-2010 at 2:54pm
It is like that bridge in Minnesota that broke a couple years back with those people on it. Something that you would think that would not fail and give away. Just tears a communtity up!!

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1985 CC 2001-SOLD
Lee Michael Johnson




Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-30-2010 at 3:39pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38419098/ns/weather/ - landfill?




Just saw this article on the Delhi clean up....says the boats and docks are going to the LANDFILL?!?!?!


Edit: http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=290661 - correct article

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Posted By: storm34
Date Posted: July-30-2010 at 3:57pm
Just saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6R3qSV8QLo - video ...the guy directly across the lake has a late 90's Ski Nautique with a Python...you can see the top of the lift....hope he got it out before the flood...



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Posted By: Waldo
Date Posted: July-30-2010 at 6:18pm
Only bad news I got on vacation. I knew it was bad when my wife woke me up to tell me it was the lead story on CNN. I could give a rats ass if the lake is private or not. They better rebuild that dam. I can count the skiing lakes one one hand in Iowa. I would love to have a place on that lake. Probably the only place in Iowa where people know what a Correct Craft is.

Waldo


Posted By: 70CC
Date Posted: July-30-2010 at 8:45pm
Chris,
I don't know who the owner is but the Huskies ski team uses that boat. It's really awesome to see and hear it in operation during the ski shows. I sure hope Nauti Girl made it through the flood.
-Phil


Posted By: mdvalant
Date Posted: July-30-2010 at 8:46pm
Mitch Tanner is the son that "inherited" that boat. Sweet ride, very fast, very great sounding. Been in it a time or two.

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http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=5009 - '90 Ski (sold)
http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=5479 - '00 Sport
Mississippi River - Bellevue, IA



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