Boyd's Bird Refuge Trip 2 22 2017

Boyd took a quick trip out to see how flooded everything was.  Here is the story in his words.

I went the only day the road was open.  It had been closed for days before and ended up closed again the day after.

I decided to see just how much water was out there.  The road to the Bird Refuge serves a dike.  The water has to go across the road or under.  In the 80's there was a massive flood and ice dams and water ripped off the asphalt and ruined the road.  They have since increased the height of the bridges and created drive thru lower sections of the road.  They close the road at times because the force of the water going over the drive-thru could sweep a car off the road.  There was water running under the bridges so high that it was in inches or touched the bottoms of the bridges.  During the high water  The lake is very low and every diversion structure is open.  There are a large quantity of trees that they have removed from the water so they don't dam up and take out the bridges.  Sadly, the adventurer left his wife home working.

Out in the water in this picture is a fairly new trailer.  It is probably there for the duration unless you have a helicopter to fly it out.  This piece of property just a couple of weeks ago, had cattle grazing on it.  Now, there isn't any part of it out of the water.