Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Camping Above the Flood



Prairie Flower State Park provided us with a campsite at Saylorsville Lake, advising us that all campsites below the dam were being evacuated up into our high ground and that some water would be released if the lake continued to rise. Notice the trees already under water up at the dam visitor center. Warnings were being delivered to the city below and folks were sandbagging in Des Moines and suburbs. Unfortunately, we had a spectacular storm late that night, which dumped 2 or 3 more inches, so we departed for Minnesota early the next morning.

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