Looks like tomorrow will be the last semi-warm day without rain for awhile. I'm heading up to the Bankhead NF for a few hours. Probably be at US 278 and CR 63 around 11. Message me or post here if anyone wants to join me.
Dang, my seat of off for a rebuild!
Before:
(https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/s2048x2048/11879162_887997987949732_36066550576276733_o.jpg)
Today:
(https://gsbs.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/1-8-16-sipsey-flood-damage/i-ChxwSMx/0/O/campsite.jpg)
Flood damage to my favorite campsite in the Bankhead NF; had to walk the last several hundred yards because of downed trees. Oh well, at least I got to camp there a few times before this happened. From what I could tell the water (today 30+ feet below the campsite) was about head-high deep at the fire pit (based on the debris line of stuff hanging in the trees and bushes).
Water rose over this bridge at the canoe put-in/picnic area in Christmas Day flooding...
(https://gsbs.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/1-8-16-sipsey-flood-damage/i-2twMGHq/0/O/picnic1.jpg)
Accumulated debris on the bridge walkway:
(https://gsbs.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/1-8-16-sipsey-flood-damage/i-KfVcjNH/0/X2/picnic3-X2.jpg)
View from about 40 yards downstream at the canoe ramp (note the entire tree trunk still lodged in the bridge):
(https://gsbs.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/1-8-16-sipsey-flood-damage/i-BfqPPfn/0/O/picnic4.jpg)