7 Feet in 7 Days

060710: We've been a bit busy of late preparing for the incoming summer customers. In the meanwhile, our normal routine for June has been amped up a bit by the rising lake level. Mother Nature has turned on the faucet and left it running for the last week. The majority of water has been crusin' in the last three days and the lake level has been rising one inch per hour. That's ONE INCH VERTICALLY, people! Here's what that translates to visually....

At 6pm last evening, David raised the docks way out of the water! This is the North dock.

This morning at 6am, they are flat in the water.

A side view of the South dock at 6pm last evening.

And this morning at 6am.

Not since 2006 have the docks had to be raised twice a day due to the rising lake level. And the lake was full, full, full in 2006. The West Walker River, which is the inlet to the lake, is raging right now and it's maximum flow (called discharge, cubic feet per second) is second only to the flood of 1997. I'm going to try to get down to the river today to take photos.