"Everybody Talks About the Weather, But Nobody Does Anything About It."
~ Often attributed (perhaps erroneously) to Mark Twain
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| Bear Creek Park - Lakewood, Colorado (Map by Google Maps) |
The only reason for me to mention the weather today – for those
of you who are reading this that have not seen a weather report out of Colorado
lately – is that it has been the story of the week here in the Denver Metro
Area. One station seems to talk about nothing else, well nothing but the
weather and the obligatory 80% of the remaining time that they waste talking
about the local football franchise.
The weather here has been just awful! We've had more rain in
the last week than we generally get all year and the tributaries to the South
Platte River are all running well above flood stage. So, why jump into this
now!? Well, because this morning they mentioned "Bear Creek" for the
first time on the news. Bear Creek is the creek that runs past my home.
Granted, the only station that I have heard it on is the one that makes
everything into way bigger a deal than it is – but there it was. Bear Creek is
now in the news.
The good news is that the flooding along the creek is about
thirty miles west of here, up in the mountains and there are at least three
flood control dams that I can think of between here and there. That includes one
that has a nice large half-empty reservoir behind it. And when it comes right
down to it, I am a good twenty-feet above where the creek normally reaches and
the entire park between here and there is designed as a flood catch basin.
So, there is really no reason to fear that I will be under
water, but it was interesting to have my
creek mentioned on the news – it so seldom is!
Wherever you are today I hope that you're staying High and
Dry!
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