{"id":1258,"date":"2013-08-22T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2020-03-02T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:38:51","slug":"madison-blue-spring-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Madison Blue Spring Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madison Blue is now closed due to rising Withlacoochee River due to 3-5 inches of rain in the area and in Georgia on Aug 16-18, upon an already saturated ground due to unusually heavy summer rains this year. These rising waters flood the cave system with dark, tannic waters that reduce\/eliminate visibility in the system, thus causing the site to be closed to cave diving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Revisiting the recent Madison history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5\/16\/13 \u2013 Open<\/li>\n<li>6\/14\/13 \u2013 Closed<\/li>\n<li>6\/29\/13 \u2013 Open<\/li>\n<li>7\/7\/13 \u2013 Closed<\/li>\n<li>8\/5\/13 \u2013 Open<\/li>\n<li>8\/22\/13 &#8211; Closed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blsf1_hg-aug22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1260\" alt=\"blsf1_hg-aug22\" src=\"https:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blsf1_hg-aug22.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blsf1_hg-aug22.png 600w, https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blsf1_hg-aug22-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blsf1_hg-aug22-387x300.png 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.02.00065.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1261\" alt=\"USGS.02319302.02.00065.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres\" src=\"https:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.02.00065.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.02.00065.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_.png 580w, https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.02.00065.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.02.00065.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_-404x300.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>Notice above that the August open period occurred at much higher levels of the basin than has been recently &#8220;normal.&#8221; For those familiar with the site, we&#8217;re talking about basin height approaching the deck!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.05.00055.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1259\" alt=\"USGS.02319302.05.00055.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres\" src=\"https:\/\/wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.05.00055.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.05.00055.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_.png 580w, https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.05.00055.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USGS.02319302.05.00055.00003.20130501.20130824..0..pres_-404x300.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison Blue is now closed due to rising Withlacoochee River due to 3-5 inches of rain in the area and in Georgia on Aug 16-18, upon an already saturated ground due to unusually heavy summer rains this year. These rising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/?p=1258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,282],"tags":[27,44],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-caves","category-updates","tag-conditions","tag-madison-spring","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}