Yosemite Flooded

ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
edited May 21, 2005 in The Big Picture
Well, our timing was good on the Yosemite trip. Because at the moment Yosemite Valley is CLOSED. Reports at the moment are that the road is under about two feet of water.

Here is Sentinal Meadow 5-15-05
conditions2.jpg
Ed

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    holy moly!
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    thumb.gif we made it....yahoo
  • thallidaythalliday Registered Users Posts: 28 Big grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    Think of the ultra-wide reflection shots you could get!!rolleyes1.gif
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    thalliday wrote:
    Think of the ultra-wide reflection shots you could get!!rolleyes1.gif
    rolleyes1.gif

    Yikes!
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    Andy took the words out of my mouth!
    andy wrote:
    holy moly!

    That was exactly what I said when I saw the photo!

    Unbelievable Ed! We sure were lucky then.
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  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited May 16, 2005
    WOW!!

    And we complained about a few clouds and some rain rolleyes1.gif We hit it at a perfect time thumb.gif I wouldn't have wanted to get "flooded in" and trapped in the Valley. It would cost $100/day to eat.....lol


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  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    thalliday wrote:
    Think of the ultra-wide reflection shots you could get!!rolleyes1.gif
    Tom, if you can find us a way to the valley , I'll give it a shot :D
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    Steve Cavigliano wrote:
    It would cost $100/day to eat.....lol


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    headscratch.gif becuase it floods we have to starve ourselves? lol3.gif
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  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    Ed

    If only I lived there I could get us in. Just need some kayaks.
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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    Unbelievable.
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  • CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited May 16, 2005
    Good thing Yosemite was LAST weekend!
    Yosemite Valley closed due to flooding

    Looks like the spot a lot of us went Sunday morning.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 17, 2005
    Omg!
    We made it in the nick of time.. Wow!
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  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited May 17, 2005
    Man there would be some Crazy Kayaking there right now. I wish I could load the kayak in a plane and fly out there right now. clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif Take a waterproof pelican and take the gear with me of course. As long as you could get far enough down in the valley to not have to worry about and severe drops like off an edge of a cliff it would be great.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited May 20, 2005
    I read this the other day while looking for the Tioga Road status.

    www.nps.gov/yose/ is the official site and you can find some piccies on
    the site. But Tioga has snow that's got to be 15' at the road. That's gonna
    take a long time to clear.

    I sure hope the web site is right because it gives you the impression the park
    is open--soggy but open.

    conditions1.jpg

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  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited May 20, 2005
    The park is open but there is another flood warning this weekend. If the weather gets as hot as suspected, it may happen yet again..
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited May 20, 2005
    I was talking with a friend about this very subject.

    Given the copious amount of snow in the high country, me thinks it's
    gonna flood a few more times.

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2005
    I think the shot you posted was taken from the bridge, ian. Here's a shot from the same location, slightly more zoomed-in, from our Friday there.

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited May 21, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    I think the shot you posted was taken from the bridge, ian. Here's a shot from the same location, slightly more zoomed-in, from our Friday there.
    How lucky were we? We pick a rainy weekend, get a day of absolutely
    gorgeous weather to shoot and a day on either side of it for some other
    cool shots.

    That shot I posted is from the NPS site and according to the caption, was
    taken at the swinging bridge.

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    How lucky were we? We pick a rainy weekend, get a day of absolutely
    gorgeous weather to shoot and a day on either side of it for some other
    cool shots.

    That shot I posted is from the NPS site and according to the caption, was
    taken at the swinging bridge.

    Ian
    No kidding about the weather.

    The swinging bridge, is that the solid wooden structure by the rest rooms and the field we shot in on Saturday morning? 'Cause that's where I got my shot, and they sure do look the same.
    Sid.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited May 21, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    No kidding about the weather.

    The swinging bridge, is that the solid wooden structure by the rest rooms and the field we shot in on Saturday morning? 'Cause that's where I got my shot, and they sure do look the same.
    Yes. It's the same place.

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