Grand Lake get together is cancelled

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All the members who were going to attend the get together spent the last few days discussing whether or not pulling the plug due on the get together due to high water was the right thing to do. We ended up decided it was just unsafe to try and press our luck so we opted not to have our shin dig. We have had tons of rain and some areas that drain into the lake received as much as 8" of rain in the last week. The lake has come up 9 feet in 3 days and is still on the rise, and is not expected to stop coming up until Friday and it is supposed to get 2 feet higher than it already is. I drove over today to look the lake over and without a doubt we made the right decision. There is current in places that I have never seen current. And the lake is full of debris including whole trees. Here are a few pictures I took today.

Here is one of the ramps I planned on using, well actually the ramp begins out there by the dock that you see over 100' from the edge of the water.


Here is a pic of the parking lot at the ramp. Keep in mind that this parking lot is where several big tournaments come out of and there is enough parking for 100 trucks and trailers on the parking lot. Now you might be able to park 6 or 7 trucks and trailers there. The parking lot actually extends over to the trees you see in the water.



I wasn't planning on using this ramp this weekend but I thought I would swing by and take a picture of it anyways.