Hoover dam, July 1983

[rmarion]

Vintage Las Vegas on Instagram: "The Bureau of Reclamation promoted the 1983 overflow as another tourist spectacle, and it proved a popular attraction. However this was no normal event. The Colorado was on a rampage. The Bureau reacted too late to un

13K likes, 506 comments - vintage_las_vegas on July 30, 2024: "The Bureau of Reclamation promoted the 1983 overflow as another tourist spectacle, and it proved a popular attraction. However this was no normal event. The Colorado was on a rampage. The Bureau reacted too late to unprecedented...

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[DarkHorseRacing]

Probably won’t ever see that again.

Would be nice to eventually see both Mead and Powell full again. It might shut the tree huggers up who want to see the dams decommissioned.

 

[Riverbottom]

The flood sucked. Spent every weekend filling sandbags for three months. Glad I was twenty three years old, couldn't do it now at sixty-five.

 

[rmarion]

The flood sucked. Spent every weekend filling sandbags for three months. Glad I was twenty three years old, couldn't do it now at sixty-five.

same time Wahweap Marina was 8-10 underwater...

sandbags and water pumps keeping it dry... little freaky..walking thru the store

 

[oldman]

Had property in Blythe Not much on it, but we scrambled to drag trailers to high ground out of harms way. We had a private runway but when we flew in it was already under a foot of water. ( I'm not a pilot) I didn't fly in.

 

[76 Hondo]

I was there in August of 83, buddy was getting married in Vegas, drove out and across the dam water was 4’ above the spillway.

 

[HNL2LHC]

I was there in August of 83, buddy was getting married in Vegas, drove out and across the dam water was 4’ above the spillway.

I have always been intrigued with Hover dam. Not sure if the fact that my grandfather was involved with a few dams in his years of work. I recall how high the water had been in th elate 80s or 90s. Never really knew of the heights in 1983. I googled for images and found these.

 

[4Waters]

I have always been intrigued with Hover dam. Not sure if the fact that my grandfather was involved with a few dams in his years of work. I recall how high the water had been in th elate 80s or 90s. Never really knew of the heights in 1983. I googled for images and found these.

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The same spillway

 

[mash on it]

As a kid in July of 83, pops rented a house boat for the second week in July, out of Callville Bay Lake Mead.
One of those days, we went to see the overflow at the dam, Az side. Still remember the water being 4 feet above the steel part of the overflow. The mist everywhere in the 110° heat. Got blown out a couple days, but we only had an 18' Eliminator jet bote. Learned how to fish that trip.

Dan'l

 

[Nordie]

At the Temple Bar Marina there's pictures of the store/restaurant with sandbags in front of it, now the same spot is like a ¼ mile away from the water.

 

[PRIMO]

At full pool on Mead you could boat up to the cable at the Bat Cave (half way through the Grand Canyon) where ammonia was harvested before going synthetic / If you had a jet boat you could make it up to the rapids …..

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

It would need a rain/snow/winter of biblical proportions to go from the 2021 picture to the 1983 picture in one shot.

As it is, we’d need to string together at least 10 really really good winters at least to get close.

 

[2Driver]

Had they known about climate change back then they could have taxed the wealthy and mandated electric cars to ward off such an event.

 

[rivermobster]

No matter How much it rains, they will never let it be full again.

I wish I would have taken more pics.

 

[hallett21]

No matter How much it rains, they will never let it be full again.

I wish I would have taken more pics.

I was gonna say isn’t the plan moving forward to store water in Powell? Filling that to the brim would be a feat in itself.

 

[rivermobster]

I was gonna say isn’t the plan moving forward to store water in Powell? Filling that to the brim would be a feat in itself.

Everything I've read lately is about the libtards wanting to tear down all the dams!

No clue what's going on behind closed doors.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Everything I've read lately is about the libtards wanting to tear down all the dams!

No clue what's going on behind closed doors.

These are the same libtards that will lose their minds when the cost of water goes through the roof for the southwest and look to blame anyone but themselves.

Don’t these idiots know it takes water to live in a desert?

 

[17 10 Flat]

These are the same libtards that will lose their minds when the cost of water goes through the roof for the southwest and look to blame anyone but themselves.

Don’t these idiots know it takes water to live in a desert?

NO !

 

[mash on it]

Didn't Steve 2FF say it was going down a hundred feet, back 2005 ish? And won't ever be up again?
Black suburbans and suits and ties? Something like that.

Dan'l

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

It would seem to me to be more beneficial to keep the lake closer to full. The power plant can make more power with more head pressure on the turbines. I thought the dam was in the business of power generation? Why handicap your ability to do that?

 

[DLC]

All I know is….

There is the same amount of water on earth now.… as there was 200 years ago !

it’s all been mis managed !

 

[rmarion]

All I know is….

There is the same amount of water on earth now.… as there was 200 years ago !

it’s all been mis managed !

and to think about all the "evaporation levels"

The oceans say high.. zero change as noted from pictures...

 

[DLC]

and to think about all the "evaporation levels"

The oceans say high.. zero change as noted from pictures...

Want about humidity levels?

The human body needs about 3 liters of water a day to survive …. Multiple that times 8.2 billion people on the planet…

that’s a lot of water just to drink / hydrate -

 

[WYRD]

Want about humidity levels?

The human body needs about 3 liters of water a day to survive …. Multiple that times 8.2 billion people on the planet…

that’s a lot of water just to drink / hydrate -

Want about them?