https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHcjAnX2IQ

even in a disaster there can be beauty.

(10-25-2017 08:27 PM)FlatIron Wrote:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHcjAnX2IQ

even in a disaster there can be beauty.

How the F can it flood in mountains? Is this true?

(10-25-2017 08:38 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(10-25-2017 08:27 PM)FlatIron Wrote:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHcjAnX2IQ

even in a disaster there can be beauty.

How the F can it flood in mountains? Is this true?

Boone sits in a valley lots of low spots. Floods pretty regular in some spots. This is the worst I’ve seen up there since my time there in the mid 90s.

We had bad storms Monday night come through the mountains, foothills, and piedmont of N.C. Some tornados as well.

Sad to see, what a year.


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Wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that could happen.

We'll have snow within a week.

Nevermind, it's snowing right now.

Wow that looks like some serious damage. I'm surprised I haven't seen anything on the news about it.

(10-25-2017 08:27 PM)FlatIron Wrote:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHcjAnX2IQ

even in a disaster there can be beauty.

That's tough to see, stay safe Boone.

(10-25-2017 08:38 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  How the F can it flood in mountains? Is this true?

Four years ago we had major flooding from the southern end of Colorado Springs to Wyoming. U of Colorado cancelled a home football game. My neighborhood had minor damage and we're at 7,000 feet.

(10-25-2017 09:59 PM)troutbummike Wrote:  Nevermind, it's snowing right now.

This is backwards, we're 30 degrees warmer than Boone right now (northern suburb of Colorado Springs). But, we will have snow by sunup Friday.

(10-25-2017 09:59 PM)troutbummike Wrote:  Nevermind, it's snowing right now.

Yep

It looked like parts of the XC course may have seen some flooding, too. Hopefully, it all is passable by the conference XC meet this weekend.

Lots of folks who don't know the mountains think it's great to have a little cabin by a stream / creek / river. Then a storm like Monday's drops nearly 6 inches of rain in a very few hours and that stream in front of the cabin gets all the water running down from the mountain behind the cabin. I'm truly grateful that the worst Boone saw seemed to be property damage.

Flooding in Boone has been a problem forever, but it's gotten progressively worse since development put the streams flowing through Boone underground. Some have actually been opened back up over the years. Two streams (Boone Creek & Winkler Creek) run through Boone converge between the Boone Mall & the Watauga Village Shopping Center before flowing into the South Fork of the New River. Boone Creek flows through campus and goes under the Convocation Center, Hardees and several other buildings. Durham Park was actually built as a reservoir to hold excess water that backed up once the flow became too great for the pipes running under the HCC. Duncan Hall & Varsity have had issues through the years, but this is the first time I've heard of Rankin being flooded. Again that's mostly due to Boone Creek being piped under the Raley Lot and past Duncan Hall. That water backs up and it has to go somewhere. In the 80's the South Fork of the New River flooded and took out and entire development near State Farm fields (where you saw all the light poles). They were demolished and never built back. A nursing home where Winkler Creek flows into the river has been evacuated numerous time. I've seen water up to car windows in Watauga Village Shopping Center. This is the first time I've seen flooding from the stream running under the intersection of 421 & 194. That must have been one more rain event

(10-25-2017 08:38 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(10-25-2017 08:27 PM)FlatIron Wrote:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHcjAnX2IQ

even in a disaster there can be beauty.

How the F can it flood in mountains? Is this true?

Mountain valleys are as prone to flooding as low lying coastal areas. Remember WV last year? That flood took out a few towns and destroyed the Greenbriar. This is not the first time it has flooded in Boone, but it might be one of the worst.

Nearly 5.5 inches of rain in one day will do that anywhere, but in Boone all of the rain from the surrounding mountains funnels right into the middle of town.

San Marcos has the same problem. Heavy rain in the Hill Country quickly run downstream to San Marcos.

They built some flood control dams along Purgatory Creek [Here] and [Here]
and along San Marcos Creek [Here] and [Here] but we still get some pretty bad flooding along the San Marcos River and Blanco River.

The amazing thing is that 3-4 hours after the video, a lot of the water was gone. Still a lot of sediment on roads and in parking lots that flooded, but the waters receded once the creeks and rivers went down and were able to handle the water again.

The amount of rain that occurred would have flooded anywhere.