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Rick J
12-28-2005, 12:47 PM
Anyone up for a trip on the lower Klamath? I have always wanted to run my jet bot on the river when it was over 100,000 cfs! :shock:

dberry
12-28-2005, 12:57 PM
Are you crazy?? You'll only try that once and they may never find your remains!! Everything is blown out over here and will be for at least two weeks.

Rick J
12-30-2005, 07:37 AM
Now I really want to go run the river and fish - it is running at 246,000 cfs - guess I will need more than a type 3 tip?

Here is a message from Bruce - anyone who knows where the house on the rock is on the lower Klamath - that is Mary Ann's - expect the river is higher than when he wrote this!


Rick, I just got back from Rod and Mary Ann's. Rod called this morning and the river is in the orchard. I went and help move some equipment up the hill. The river is impressive lots of big logs floating down. There is a constant debris line. It started snowing and lightning I was under a tree out back when one of the tops came crashing down not fifteen feet from me. I took that as a sign that it was time to get the hell out of Dodge!

Adam Grace
12-30-2005, 01:02 PM
Holy Crap! That's huge!

Thanks for the update Rick

J.R. Hubbard
12-30-2005, 10:14 PM
I signed up just to reply to this post.
That' HUGE! I was lucky enough to get a tour of Mary Ann's place in Aug. At the time we were looking up about 100 or more feet to her cabin from the water...that's amazing!

Darian
12-30-2005, 11:16 PM
Hey JR,.... Welcome to the BB community. Hope you'll contribute more.... 8)

Didn't see it but I keep wondering how high the water was at that point in the Klamath during the 1964 flood year. :shock: :shock:

Digger
12-31-2005, 10:12 AM
and the winning motto is:

http://www.klamathbucketbrigade.org/

Rick J
12-31-2005, 11:40 AM
HA!!! What is a measily 300,000 cfs - it is now at 405,000. Mary Ann's house was dry during the 64 flood but it is pearched on a rock with lower ground all around and the river had the place surrounded. They have lower builidings that serve as the guest cabins that could be in trouble on this one though most are raised some above existing ground.

Hope she is taking pictures if she stayed home - might be able to get some posted!

Adam Grace
12-31-2005, 12:03 PM
That would be awesome to see Rick. I still can't beleive the river is flowing so hig up, pretty crazy!

J.R. Hubbard
12-31-2005, 12:42 PM
When we got the tour of her place, we walked up a steep hill from the river through her orchard. We saw all the other cabins and they aren't much higher than the orchard is. I hope her place is OK. Some pictures would be amazing. I think I have one from the boat looking up at her place in Aug. I'll have to figure out how to post a picture first!

Gregg Machel
12-31-2005, 05:02 PM
email me the pic and I'll post it for you. gregg@kiene.com

or ...

Follow the instructions here: http://www.kiene.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=1424

Bill Kiene semi-retired
12-31-2005, 05:59 PM
I think the big famous floods in Nor Cal for the last 50 years were 1955, 1964, 1986 and 1997.

Take a look @ some pics from 1955

http://americahurrah.com/Flood55/FloodMenu.htm

http://americahurrah.com/images/Marysville.jpg

Gregg Machel
12-31-2005, 07:20 PM
Here's the picture J.R. spoke of:

http://kiene.com/messageboard/images/pictures/klamathhouse.jpg

J.R. Hubbard
01-01-2006, 12:25 AM
This is sitting in a boat looking up at Mary Ann's place. It has to be about 100-150 feet straight up. On top of that the river is very wide there, so for water to even get near her place is just amazing!!

Bruce Slightom
01-02-2006, 10:10 AM
In 1997 the water got into the cabin known as the rec room. So far this year it hasn't gotten in there. I'll attempt to post some photos that Mary Ann and Rod sent me. This one is from the back porch of the rec room, 12/31/05:



http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/cherylslightom/43a13f0c.jpg

Bruce Slightom
01-02-2006, 10:12 AM
This is looking across river:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/cherylslightom/highwaterDec31th05013.jpg

Bruce Slightom
01-02-2006, 10:16 AM
This one is from the deck shown on the picture posted by Gregg Machel (100-150 ft. up):

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/cherylslightom/highwaterDec31th05014.jpg

Bruce Slightom
01-02-2006, 10:18 AM
This one is their orchard and (unfortunately) what's left of the chicken coop.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/cherylslightom/highwaterDec31th05010.jpg

Ed Wahl
01-02-2006, 11:56 AM
Hope they got the chickens out. :wink:

Bruce Slightom
01-02-2006, 12:24 PM
Sorry to say the chickens and turkeys did not make it.

Adam Grace
01-02-2006, 02:37 PM
Wow, thanks for the pictures Bruce.

J.R. Hubbard
01-02-2006, 07:02 PM
That first picture that you psoted, was that where the target range is...or was? The pictures are amazing! For me it's great perspective.

Rick J
01-03-2006, 08:07 AM
Very wild photos Bruce!!

JR - that is where the target range is located.

Checked the past records and the '64 flood was the highest on record for the Klamath with an estimated flow of 550,000 cfs - this storm I think peaked at 405,000 cfs.

Rick J
01-03-2006, 08:26 AM
Here is a prespective - first photo from Bill during normal fall flows and the next from Bruce

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/RickJ/Klamath.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/RickJ/highwaterDec31th05016.jpg