HOLY RUNOFF, BATMAN!!

Fellow Soggy E-11ers:

 

Well, like no other runoff in Montana history, virtually overnight with rising temperatures and torrential thunderstorms throughout Western Montana, the MT rivers have risen like they never have before.  By way of example, until today, the highest Rock Creek flow rate ever registered this date was in 2009 when the flow hit 5,020 cubic feet per second (“cfs”) [see our sidebar flow chart].  Well, stuff that number in the history books for today the flow rate is 5,610 cfs—a new record high (up 112%).

 

The attached photos taken an hour ago by your Hostess With The Mostess (when compared to the others that we have sent your way taken from the same Log-o-Meter vantage point) really tell the tale.  Moreover, we have literally “gone off the charts” with the current flow’s correct plotting on our flow chart being right dead center and bull’s eyed in the middle of the “0” in the chart’s “2011” upper caption.

 

What does this all mean?, you ask—well, as in 2009, we are in uncharted territory right now with the one thing that I know for certain being that whatever water mass was earlier in the higher climes of Montana’s mountains is rollicking downhill and down stream, cleansing our rivers (just as we wished) and moving the fish downstream from their winter-familiar haunts (just as we wanted) with visions of lights out fishing coming our way in just three short weeks now when the proud Ones grace Montana with their wonderful presence.

 

Indeed, Holy runoff, Batman!!!

 

Stay tuned, stay dry and know that this year we are truly in for something special during E-11, as in “it has never happened before, gang!”

 

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