Bartlesville drone video.
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Oologah is 120% and rising, starting to cover 169. Hell of weekend coming. This is so nuts it's hard to keep up with all of it.
Well crap. The power just went out.
They went into the '86 event with much lower river levels downstream due to the event (hurricane paine remnants) being more localized to NC Oklahoma. That's why the Arkansas @ Muskogee is exceeding the '86 level by 5ft right now even with much lower Keystone releases. All the lakes being so high, all the rivers cresting at records, all this rain in multiple locations and drainages over such a long period...this is so much more complex than '86. It's unprecedented.
I do not see this going well. The ACOE press conference today at 10:00 am was full of optimism and they were talking about scaling back releases Sunday afternoon and all but challenging us all to a celebratory round of frisbee golf at 41st and Riverside on Monday. I think that's grossly irresponsible. I guarantee you every staff member at ACOE knows it is a likely possibility Keystone releases will go up. Not down. 2-4" of rain in the Ark River basin over Kaw and Keystone this weekend will not allow them to decrease releases that and they know it. And that's just this weekend. There will be more rain next week. I am expecting 300K+. As a start.
I get that they don't want to be doom and gloom or panic people for no reason, but going from "everything cool guys" to having some sleepless caffeine addled corps dude have to break it to the media in a couple days that releases are going up is going to be a bad look.
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