Mike,
I drove over to the dam yesterday and they have all of the spillway gates open and are flooding some of the low areas of Redding to avoid having to flood the whole city after this series of storms gets through. The lake is about 8 feet from the top and it seems strange that last Summer it was the lowest since it was first filled and now they are dumping water to control flooding. I believe they are dumping around 60,000 cubic feet per second right now as they want to avoid having to close the drum gates. And it is pouring rain here this morning. It is supposed to rain all week.
I always thought the Santa Ynez river was mad. I remember swimming in it and having a blast. It just seems strange to me that they have built up so much around the dam as it was quite a ways out in the nowhere land when they built it. I have got to get back down there before I go, and see some of the places that I enjoyed so much.
Ron
