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Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Tue, 01/31/2006 - 9:13pm.
I just got back from a walk around Capitol Lake. The water is as high as I have ever seen it. It is up onto the path in a couple places on the Southern part of the lake. Tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. there is a 17.0 foot predicted high high tide. Is it time to break out the sand bags? It might be time to double up on that flood insurance if you live or work downtown.
» Funny thing: I only saw one other walker. Is this the "out of sight - out of mind" mentality? Anyway, Ya'll are missing out. I won't be able to check out the lake at 8 A.M. tomorrow morning, but I would be interested in hearing about its condition. There's a whole lot of water moving down there. That's for sure.
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wow, that sounds like a situa
Submitted by khaos on Tue, 01/31/2006 - 9:56pm.I went by the resevoir (lake,
Submitted by emmettoconnell on Wed, 02/01/2006 - 8:29am.I went by the resevoir (lake, sigh) on my way to work this morning, taking the Deschutes Parkway from Tumwater to downtown. Other than the muddy look of the water on the upstream side of the dam and the high high tide on the downstream, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
One of these days though we're going to figure out that flooding is not prevented by building a dam downstream of what you want to prevent from flooding.
I think that the day will com
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 02/01/2006 - 9:05pm.Because of a natural cycle or
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Wed, 02/01/2006 - 9:29pm.Both. It is widely accepted t
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 02/01/2006 - 9:41pm.But some of this is just the natural cycles. One of the consequences of semi-permanent to "permanent" settlement is the eventual steam roller of mother nature coming through.
Not much we can do as mortals; wait and get crushed, (composted, recycled back into the planet's organic richness,) or pick up and get the ____ out of the way! We can ask ourselves if it is worth while to invest so much in "permanent" structures when they are destined, ultimately, to fail.
Instead: Invest in the mind,
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 02/01/2006 - 9:44pm.