I've driven past that damn a whole bunch of times. It's on the Winecup-Gamble ranch just off the Thousand Springs road. It was not much of a damn. More like a big stock tank, than a reservoir, really. Absolutely stunning that much water could have come from it! There is a much bigger damn and reservoir, closer to town. Crittendon, which is GREAT fishing, but became private about fifteen years ago so I haven't fished there in that long. But when I first heard about this flood I thought it must be Crittendon that broke and a mistake when they were saying it was 21 mile that had broken.
Spent half a day once in what at the time was the only bar and only business still open in Montello, waiting for a tow truck. Think I met about 90% of the population that day, seems I was sort of like "news" (I'd had to walk two days to get there and the sheriff hung out with me waiting on the tow truck...). The thing I know they would have appreciated that day, though there was no flood, would have been a case of cigarettes. There weren't any for sale in town, but it seemed like every citizen smoked them and they were all rolling their own. People pulling out rolling papers left and right. I had a friend waiting back at my truck that smoked so when the tow truck arrived I asked about buying a pack. Couldn't be had, in the whole town. But some lady said to hold on she'd go ask somebody else and came back with another lady that gave me five cigarettes to take to my buddy. Nice folks.
Two bars have been open in recent years. And they've had working gas pumps too. And cigarettes. Place has been a lot more prosperous in recent years, than it used to be. Hope they bounce back.
Unless I can get a lot more done today, than I think I will, I'm probably not up for tomorrow. But I'll keep an eye on this thread, just in case.
- DAA
