Although this isn't a trip, it is significant to the Mammoth history.
Tuesday, July 7th, there was a large line of slow moving storms that moved across the big country and dropped several inches of rain in Eastland county. West of us, Abilene received 7 inches of rain! I think I saw that Eastland got 3.5.
Well, initially, we didn't think that much about it, until reading that lake levels were again in the rise. Wednesday morning, we read via Facebook that the lake levels has risen 3 feet above conservation level overnight, which begins to flood our park significantly.
Since we were not able to be there, we became increasingly concerned. I asked if anyone knew the status of the park on a closed FB group, and got these pics.
Entrance to the RV park.
Water up to the main office building and the storage shed.
That's the park dumpsters behind that sign!
Water from the lake breeches a small dam and spills into a pond in the center of the park, flooding it as well. This is the small pond overflowing its banks. Our baby is in the group on the left.
Based on the photos of the flooding, here is what I think is happening to the park. (This is my guess, because we have not been there to witness the worst of the flooding.)
Luckily, we are on higher ground near the back of the park, so not in danger of getting water in the rig unless they have 7' or more above.
The park manager didn't have time to pull his trailer out, he is in site 40. Here's a link to pics. https://www.facebook.com/SolidRockRVPark/timeline/story?ut=43&wstart=0&wend=1438412399&hash=-3165185495176579507&pagefilter=3
The lake got to 5.68' above conservation level, which is higher than it was back in March. Very scary, since this happened all from run-off from storms a good day before. The lake rose that much in just 18 hours.
We had already considered moving to Cisco before, but the possibility of flooding and an El Niño weather pattern predicted this fall, we are seriously looking at our options.
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