Since our potential puppy and her current family and mommy are living in Roscoe, Nebraska, where the South Platte River is currently flooding, I’ve been doing some reading on the USGS.gov site about measuring water levels, discharge and velocity. It is only something you would probably read if you were a civil engineer, a biologist, farmer, or someone affected by a flooding river.
I am a person slightly affected by a flooding river from afar. Frankly, I can’t see puppies floating down a flooding river. My field of vision goes black and I feel like I”m going to vaporize. Ok, it just makes me sad, to understate the feeling, to think about.
So, living withing 20 miles of a river that has previously flooded didn’t help much, because I wasn’t in danger from the flooding. But in this case, I started to research by reading this site: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lbf/?n=southplatteriver. If you scroll down to South Platte River at Roscoe, you will see a history of how the river has flooded recently and detail of what the anticipated affects were.
In the impacts section, you’ll see what various water levels affect different areas of the city. At 10″, the flood water would reach something called a “gage house floor”. A gage house is something the USGS builds to house equipment that can measure the flood water height, velocity and discharge. It can also record various other things, like weather conditions and precipitation. I read about it here: http://nd.water.usgs.gov/gage/how.html.
In the end, we end up with a chart like this, that shows how quickly the water is rising. As you can see, this one rose about 11.5 feet in just a matter of hours. Now, the water is receding, which is good. Just a little higher, and it would cover i-80, which is a main travel corridor. It’s already caused flooding to quite a few houses and businesses, I’m sure. We’ll see when the news comes on.
I’ll be looking forward to hearing from our breeder. It will just be nice to hear the people and the animals are safe where she is.
男子怀孕 