For those of you who can remember the midwest floods from earlier this year, it's not over yet. I sail on Mark Twain Lake in NE Missouri. At normal pool it's an 18,000 surface acre lake with about 20 miles of winding channel and numerous coves to anchor out in. The 30 or so sailboats that call this home make do. So all spring, the Corps has been holding water (it's a mainly a flood control reservoir). Up until a week ago, the lake was about 25 feet over normal pool and ready to start meeting peak demands for the July/Aug AC loads. Doing what it was supposed to do. Except in the last week, the watershed has had about 10 to 15 inches of unexpected rain and caught the Corps with their pants down. In it's 20 year history, the record lake level has been 636' elevation, and the maximum flood control pool is 638 feet. In two days, they caught a 7 foot rise to 640' and nearly had water over the dam. Normally, the most water they will ever release from the dam is 12,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). As of yesterday, it was running 58,000 cfs, with warnings it may go to 78,000 or higher. In short, they nearly lost what is now a 40,000 surface acre lake that is 100' deep at the dam. http://www.southlakedesigns.com/mtlake5/mtlake5.html And as is normal for this time of year at sunset......no wind.