Dam

[dennis40x]

 

[WaterburyBob]

No, just dam ...

 

[gregintenn]

What did the fish say when he ran into the concrete wall?

 

[Mickey D]

Dam Glory Hole!

http://daviswiki.org/Morning_Glory_Spillway

 

[USAF385]

Welcome everyone. I am your dam guide. Now I'm about to take you through a fully functional power plant, so please, no one wander off the dam tour and please take all the dam pictures you want. Now are there any dam questions?

 

[Smitty500Mag]

Welcome Now are there any dam questions?

Yeah, where are your dam bath rooms? I need to take a wheeze before the tour starts.

Smitty

 

[handejector]

Notice in the pics that the dams are in the mountains.
Dams are always in the mountains.
That's not fair.
Has Obama looked into "spreading them around"?
North Texas could use a few.
I don't remember many in western Kansas or southern Illinois either.

 

[ingmansinc]

Dillon, Co. has the best dam lake in the state and it is a really nice dam town with lots of good dam restaurants.

 

[glypnir]

Notice in the pics that the dams are in the mountains.
Dams are always in the mountains.
That's not fair.
Has Obama looked into "spreading them around"?
North Texas could use a few.
I don't remember many in western Kansas or southern Illinois either.

The dams are just easier to see in the mountains. Every lake in Texas except for Caddo (which is half in Louisiana) is a dam lake. Since you're picking on us evil socialist liberals , let me point out that most of those dam lakes in Texas are evil government socialist lakes, paid for, most likely, with tax dollars. Should we take them back?

 

[ingmansinc]

Yeah, where are your dam bath rooms? I need to take a wheeze before the tour starts.

Smitty

I'm so glad you didn't say dam leak before the tour starts.

 

[pluspea]

As cousin eddy said when asked if he had any dam questions while visiting hoover dam. "Where's the DAM bait?"
It also looks like the best lake by a dam site.

 

[Andy Griffith]

Talking about dams...

Let me tell you a couple of related stories.

The first one is about one of my father's friends...Royce Brown.

He got a job during the 1940's as an engineer (or something or other) working on building Fontana Dam. No problem in itself...

On Saturdays, he helped out in Dad's restaurant and on Sunday, he always got good and snookered.

It's nearly 70 miles through mountain roads to get to Fontana from here, and he rode a Harley to get there!

I'll never forget going with my father in the mornings to go help get him up and placed on that Harley after giving him several cups of coffee. It was usually about 5AM during the summer time...I'll never forget him riding off and my father shaking his head and him saying "he's going to hurt himself one day."

He did help finish the dam, never had an accident and lived, I hope, to a ripe old age.


Secondly, I still have a grudge against Roosevelt's administration...taking all the family's good farmland and placing it beneath a lake behind a...dam!

 

[Spotteddog]

If you do decide to take them back due to us not being sufficiently grateful please, one request? When you decide to pull the first brick outta' that wall, let us know so we can be on the high ground watching the show!

 

[cowboy117]

Bonneville,on the Columbia,northern Oregon.

Winchester Dam,south-western Oregon[Roseburg].

The Dalles dam,northern Oregon[The Dalles,Oregon.]

 

[wheelgun1958]

Actually, Caddo has been a dam lake for years.

CADDO LAKE. Caddo Lake is impounded by Caddo Dam in the Cypress Creek basin in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and extends into Harrison and Marion counties, Texas; the center of the lake is located twenty-nine miles northeast of Marshall (at 30°42' N, 97°20' W). The lake, named for the Caddo Indians, was one of the largest natural lakes in the South prior to the construction of the dam. According to Caddo legend the lake was formed by an earthquake caused by a Caddo chief's failure to obey the Great Spirit. The more prosaic explanation of the lake's origin is that it was formed behind a log jam in the Red River. In 1874 the United States government destroyed the log jam, or Red River Raft, as it was called (see RED RIVER).

In 1914 a dam was completed near Mooringsport, Louisiana. Construction was begun on a replacement dam in 1968 and completed in 1971. The dam is owned and operated by the Caddo Lake Levee District. The project was constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for water-supply purposes. Caddo Lake is formed by an earthfill dam some 1,540 feet long and is used for recreation, wildlife preserves, and water conservation. The crest of the spillway is 170.5 feet above mean sea level, the conservation storage capacity is 69,200 acre-feet, and the surface area is 20,700 acres. The drainage area above the dam (including the drainage area of Lake O' the Pinesqv) comprises 2,700 square miles. The lake is the heart of the 500-acre Caddo State Park, established in 1934; it is noted for its giant cypress trees, plentiful fish, and excellent duck and goose hunting. In 1993, in an attempt to block the construction of a barge canal through the lake, environmentalists secured recognition of Caddo Lake as an international wetlands site, the thirteenth such site in the United States.

Handbook of Texas Online - CADDO LAKE

 

[Denver Dick]

No, just dam ...

Of course, Bob, he could have had his camera set on auto-shutter. One press of the button and dam, dam, dam, dam, dam, etc.

 

[Goodtime Charlie]

I don't remember many in western Kansas ...

That's because our give-a-dam is busted.

 

[don95sml]

Probably the only geographical feature in this great country that bears my family name is a dam in Colorado. No photo available, although I've tried to send for one. All that exists is a mosaic tile representation of the dam on the wall of the visitor's center. Not very impressive, but at least I have a tiny bit of a claim to fame.

 

[m657]

re: 'I don't remember many in western Kansas or southern Illinois either."

....I could name a couple Glory Holes from Illinois if you wish....

 

[rimfired]

Amster