FLOOD!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How devestating. Sorry to hear of all the damage.

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.

Dam

long video

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It looks very bad on the news. Prayers for all concerned! Please keep us posted and if there is anything we can do!
Tom