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Any of you Montanans get the hail or tornados?

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Holy smokes, wild weather last night. Billings barely missed getting hammered. Gold ball size hail and multiple tornados just west, north and east of Billings, but nothing in any big towns...unfortunately, the Musselshell river basin got 1-3 inches of rain, which will show up on the hydrograph later today and Roundup is probably in for more water in town... There was actually the start of a funnel cloud literally right over my house last night, but then it dissipated... it was really hairy there for about 1 minute....
 
Just a little rain and thunder and lightning.

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Round up is in for it.... upstream on the musselshell the hydrograph just spiked from a gauge height of 10 feet to nearly 13 feet...and its not done climbing yet... By the end of the day that water will be to Roundup... at near record levels as it was last week...
 
I'm supposed to be in the breaks this week doing field work on/near the refuge...I think I can wait a little longer.
 
I guess Saturday through yesterday was our summer.... the 7 day forecast doesn't get us out of the 60's again... with chance of showers every day.
 
I've been grumbling about the horrid county road I live on with all its potholes and leafspring busters,but nothing compared to the folks with water lapping at the front door.I feel for you all,hang in there,I'm afraid its going to $uck a while longer.
 
Rained all day here and I can see that it snowed just above the house on the mountain. The amount of snow in the hills is unbelievable for this time of year and it keeps getting more with each spring rain/snow storm.
 
Forecast for the Musselshell is for 1-2 inches more precip the next 48 hours....

The Missouri is putting 62000 cubic feet of water per second into Fort Peck right now... and its going to stay that way for the next few weeks....
 
I was at Fort Peck the other day and took a couple of pictures. It looked like everybody in the area had come to watch the spillway as well. Maybe a few of the Glasgow guys can post pictures of Glasgow. The milk river is still high and I saw quite a few houses with water.

Here is the spillway and a few spectators.
 

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Does anyone know if the road into Crooked creek is going to be open or usable? We finally can launch boats there but now we can't even get to the ramp. What a year!

John
 
I reckon its washed out in places, but till it dries up...you'd be farting in the wind trying to get in there with the mud...

Hey John
 
In flows into Fort Peck jumped to 101,000 cfs and they are now schedule to increas out flows to 55,000 cfs. I bet they get it up to 70,000 or more by the time this is over.

The Milk is above it's all time previous high crest here in Glasgow. Hope the levee's and dikes hold.

Here is the road by the baseball fields. If you drive through that water you will soon arrive at Breaks Runner's place. I opted not to be a submarine commander.

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supposedly will come up even more as the all the rain north and west of us flows downhill. This is not even the snow melt yet. Strange year.

Nemont
 
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