Prodigious rains in May 2015—in this case over two feet at my gauge upstream—sent Lake Thunderbird well out of its usual bounds and into surrounding crosstimbers country, drowning scores of gophers, voles, ticks, and chiggers in the process. Moreover, huge flash floods during that episode ran into the already-swollen lake faster than all possible outlets could drain it, rendering muddy, red high-water marks in this forest about five feet above this near-record flood level. That mud-caked log was not intended to be part of the fence!
Norman OK (31 May 15) Looking SE
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