DEL NORTE

blacktailbuck3x3 · Feb 23, 2019

EELGRASS YOU KNOW BETTER THAN MOST HOW SPECIAL HUMBODLT AND DEL NORTE ARE. I DONT HAVE ANY KIN IN KLAMATH ANYMORE THEIR UP IN CRESENT CITY. AFTER THE BIG FLOOD IN 1964 WE MOVED TO THE BAY AREA TO CARE FOR MY MOTHER AND WORK I WAS 14 AND HATED IT TO THIS DAY. MY FATHER IS 94 YEARS OLD AND MOVED BACK IN 2010 DIDNT BLAME HIM AT ALL.MAYBE YOU REMEMBER ROY AND DOTTIE ROOK THEY OWNED A BIG FISHIN CAMP IN THE KLAMATH GLEN.O BOY HOWDY THEIR GUESTS CAUGHT SOME BIG SALMON AND STEELE HEAD.I REMEMBER YOU COULD WALK ACROSS THE MOUTH ON BOATS WHEN THE FISH WERE RUNNIN. ANYWAY DONT WANT TO BE LONG WINDED ON THE FORUM TAKE CARE AND KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY.

huntindad4 · Feb 23, 2019

I know the Rook family!

I went to school with Ray. He was a year behind me in school. He graduated in 88 me in 87.
We played football together. He also coached my oldest son in Varsity football. Great family.

I used to love fishing the mouth when the salmon were running. We bank fished mostly, called it combat fishing. Ha.

Bill

People who work for a living are quickly being
overwhelmed by people who vote for a living.

eelgrass · Feb 23, 2019

Yes, the '64 flood changed the world as we knew it. I didn't know the Rook family but I worked at Klamath one summer as a firefighter for CDF. I fished up river and avoided the mouth. I have lots of Yurok friends who kept me in salmon and sturgeon. And eels, and candle fish. I had keys to the gates up river.

And I logged up on the Klamath for Simpson for 5 years from 1968 to 1973.

I used to hunt Lake Earl and fish the Smith a little, but it's been years ago.

YBO · Feb 24, 2019

And now eel is the kingpin dope grower in Mendocino County. Second in line to the top dog cartel. He also runs that brothel called Miss Kitty's Place. Robert Kraft is a frequent vistor.

eelgrass · Feb 26, 2019

>And now eel is the kingpin
>dope grower in Mendocino County.
> Second in line to
>the top dog cartel. He
>also runs that brothel called
>Miss Kitty's Place. Robert Kraft
>is a frequent vistor.

The timber industry dried up and a guy has to adapt. I miss the old days though.

YBO · Feb 26, 2019

I hear you loud and clear. Back to the December 1964 flood.
If memory serves me correctly (I was 10 years old) there was 750,000 cfs of water raging down the Eel River
Thats more than the Klamath River and possibly the Sacramento River have ever recorded.
It truly was a "thousand-year" flood.

Homer · Feb 26, 2019

I visited with eel a couple years ago and asked him about all the signs talking about the '64 flood....He sent me a book of short stories and lots of photos.....absolutely amazing what went on.....changed that country forever.

not as much as the dope growers though....

GOODWIN: Dems really do love Republicans -- when they're dead...

YBO · Feb 28, 2019

In my neck of the woods the illegal gov't land grows have decreased considerably the last few years. I imagine most would think that is due to the legalization of indoor grows. Not true. Lack of stream water is the biggest culprit.
Not this year!

eelgrass · Feb 28, 2019

You could almost jump across Eel River the last few summers a few miles above tide water. It completely dried up in 2014.

The Eel River yesterday. The highest it's been since 1964. It rained for like 5 days and nights non stop. Crazy.

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/feb/27/photos-humboldt-flood-day-above/

blacktailbuck3x3 · Mar 2, 2019

EELGRASS THANKS FOR THE PICS AND VIDEO. REMINDS ME WHEN I WAS A KID AND A STORM WOULD ROLL IN AND COULD NOT STAY AWAY FROM THE FLOODING CREEK ON THE RANCH.ONLY HAD ONE PAIR OF LEVIS AND ONE PAIR OF BOOTS AND WE HAD A WASHER BUT NO DRYER AND MOM WOULD PITCH A FIT. IT WAS WORTH THE BELT PLAYING AROUND IN THAT CREEK. FORGOT TO MENTION WHEN THE SUN WOULD COME OUT YOU COULD SEE THE MOUTH OF KLAMATH RIVER FROM OUR FRONT PORCH. Y'ALL TAKE CARE AND BE SAFE.

Tikka · Apr 22, 2019

Here?s another one for you guys... I never even heard about this flood until
this post...

https://youtu.be/goAnyAcLYKo

Comules · Sep 14, 2019

There are some great pics of the 64 Ell river flood damage to NWP railroad on the NWP site on facebook. Also a lot of great history of the railroad if anyone is interested?

eelgrass · Sep 14, 2019

Comules, my Dad was a brakeman on the NWP Railroad from 1950 to when the NWP abandoned it in 1983.(I think it was in 1983, not sure). It was amazing how fast they reopened the line after the '64 flood.

There was another flood in 1955. A slide came down and took an engine into the Eel River. The crew died and my Dad took some 8mm movies of the divers trying to recover the bodies. I still have it.

Comules · Sep 14, 2019

LAST EDITED ON Sep-14-19 AT 11:10PM (MST)[p]eel
That's cool to have movies have you thought of having them put on DVD?

After they opened the railroad back up after the 64 flood the tunnel at island mountain caught fire and collapsed at the portals and also massive blue clay mud slides that year pretty much ended the northern end of the NWP.

My grandparents had a ranch in trinity county that went all the way down to the railroad at Kekawaka. We as kids would drive one of the jeeps down to the eel river in the summer to swim. When I was 7 I remember riding one of the last steam trains from Petaluma to the ranch.

There is some real good stuff on FB and a guy named Josh Buck has a lot of pics of the tunnels and damage to RR that he took while floating the eel.

eelgrass · Sep 15, 2019

When I was a teenager Dad would sneak me and a friend onto the freight train headed to Willits. He would drop us off at various places along the river to steelhead fish. We'd spend the night and catch a ride back to Eureka the next day. Kekawaka was one of them, and Island Mountain too. We walked through the tunnel one time, almost a mile long. The numbers of deer we'd see down in the canyon was amazing.

I'll check out the FB. Thanks!