yesterday the Roosevelt County Sheriffs department told my wife she could tag along to go check out the flooding on the Poplar River, 20 miles as the crow flies down stream from us is approximately where it also enters the Missouri River....keep in mind mid June in the past i have pretty much waded across this river well down stream from most of these pics and barely got my knees wet....most places anyone with a decent arm can throw a baseball across the river and hit the far bank....
my wife and the Highway 2 bridge just west of the town of Poplar.....mos the time there is bout 10 or 12 feet or so between the bottom of the bridge and the river
bad currents and lil whirlpools and eddies were common
this isnt wake from the boat, this is the river ripping through a narrow channel between the main bank and an island
on the left hand trunk you can sorta see an orange line.....thats 8 foot up the tree.....this tree is in the middle of what is normally a wheat field
as i said, normally you can throw a baseball across the Poplar River
my wife has been on Fort Peck Resevoir throwing out some of its worst but she was very happy to get out of the boat on the end of this trip, she said the currents were unreal, they would be traveling along smoothly and all the sudden would get tossed up against the bank cause of a real strong eddy.....and this was our lil dinky Poplar River and not the Missouri...
my wife and the Highway 2 bridge just west of the town of Poplar.....mos the time there is bout 10 or 12 feet or so between the bottom of the bridge and the river
bad currents and lil whirlpools and eddies were common
this isnt wake from the boat, this is the river ripping through a narrow channel between the main bank and an island
on the left hand trunk you can sorta see an orange line.....thats 8 foot up the tree.....this tree is in the middle of what is normally a wheat field
as i said, normally you can throw a baseball across the Poplar River
my wife has been on Fort Peck Resevoir throwing out some of its worst but she was very happy to get out of the boat on the end of this trip, she said the currents were unreal, they would be traveling along smoothly and all the sudden would get tossed up against the bank cause of a real strong eddy.....and this was our lil dinky Poplar River and not the Missouri...