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Originally posted by Shorty:
Allright, it can quit raining any time now, 3.2 million gallons of rain water is plenty. Water has been going through the spillway since Saturday morning, the water was 4" above the pipe by day break Sunday morning.

My intial thoughts on Saturday were "after years and years of drought, happiness is a full pond." By Sunday afternoon I had changed my mind after watching BG after BG get sucked down the pipe and out of the pond at an average size of 2". The water level was only an 1" above the pipe when I got there yesterday afternoon and BG were still getting sucked down at a rate of 2-3 fish every 5-10 seconds. My dad said Sunday morning they were disappearing at a rate of 2-3 BG every 5 seconds when it was still 4" above the pipe. At that rate we probably lost 10,000 to 25,000 2" BG in a 14 hour period yesterday. I felt ill after inspecting the drainage ditch below the discharge pipe last night, there were thousands of 1-3" BG wedged in the grass everywhere and the discharge pipe was still dumping water at an estimated rate of 120 gallons per minute. Now it looks like I will need to cull more bass than I plannned too this year.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention, the flash flooding washed out or big foot brigde again, the one that was circled in the satelite photo.
Well PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!! Send some of that rain my WAY!!! My lake has not filled YET from three years ago when it was built!!! Last year at this time I added 120 more acre of water shed to my lake and it has made a differance, but this year end and year out of drought has KILLED us!!!!! Please send some of this rain our way!!! All I need is a good soaking 6 inch rain maybe 5 inches...

Man you would not BELIEVE how I check the weather day in and day out hoping for saome rain for the past TREE YEARS!!!!