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The dams upstream of where I live have been breached.
Over the next 48 hours, the entire contents of Wixom lk, Sanford lake, Smallwood lake, and potentially Secord lake, will be boiling past, 2 miles from my front door.
Think 500 year flood.
It's quite odd imagining a giant bulge of water enroute to your town. Your door step.
I have about 8 ft of freeboard at present, and am 2.5 miles straight back from the Saginaw river.
Check out the flood on Midland county 911 for videos of the collapsing dams.
I'm parking a boat next to the house, and moving some contents upstairs.
It's kinda cool sorting "save/abandon" when the weather is nice, and things are dry.
Out there doing it best I can.
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I saw the videos a little while ago. It is horrific.
I wish you the best of luck. you don't have much time.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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Very best of luck to you and your neighbors. Scary for sure.
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I'm concerned about a pal of mine who lives southwest of Midland.
According to Google Earth, he will remain above predicted 'worst case' crest heights but I'm not so sure.
Apparently, these dams have been a known hazard for at least a decade.
This is a societal failure. The dams are privately owned, and the regulators are powerless to enforce the needed repairs. It's been in court, and the dams 'were' in the process of being sold to a public interest group who could afford the necessary repairs via our wonderful 'grant' system.
Cries of socialism, yet the sale price of the electricity generated by the powerhouses is regulated. The private company can't afford to maintain their old and crumbling dams.
Remarkable that critical infrastructure is allowed to get to the failure point by such a flawed system.
Be safe CZ. Hope you don't have to bug out, but it does not look good.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Best of luck to you CZ.....last year flooding was horrendous in my area....I thanked the Lord many times that I live on a bluff at least 40-50 feet above the river below.
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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Good luck, CZ. We did the flood-hustle last spring. Guns first, then the art.
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Stay safe CZ, it sounds too close for comfort.
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I have hunted grouse near there years past. Hope the ground nests don't get wiped out.
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I have hunted grouse near there years past. Hope the ground nests don't get wiped out. Im hopeful the people don't get wiped out. Good luck. You are going to need it. Floods might be the worst. Best, Ted
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Nothing more miserable than sorting through a flooded house. I've had river shacks and houses on the Gulf of Mexico flooded. Cleanup is nasty. Stay safe!...Geo
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