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loneeagle_24 · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: Storm damage

For those cachers heading out to get either LQP or Upper Sioux State parks. Please be aware that both of these might have tree damage in the area as Thursday morning we had some MAJOR straight line winds come through this part of the state. Most of the area had 80-90+ MPH winds go through. Montevideo (where I live) there have been numerous trees down and branches from trees down. It almost looks like a war zone in parts of town. There were no serious injuries, but Lots of power lines down. Some people in town may not get power back up till early next week. My plan is to possibly go check on both of these caches on Sunday. Both SP are in the area that has been dealing with the cleanup of the damage from the storm. The caches in these parks may be OK, but just be aware that some of the area may have changed due to downed trees.

I have one cache location in town here that it's hiding place sounds like has been blown over as well. I disabled it till it can get checked on and possibly moved.

Will try to post here when I can get an update on both of these caches.
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Oneied Cooky · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

I was at LQP Thur afternoon. The Park crew had a trail cut thru the downed trees to enter the park but you could not get near the first stage. A half mile of trees laying accross the road. Got to stage one with a lot of climbig to find nothing but more downed trees. Went back to the Park office, No one there. But a guy driveing one of the trucks hauling away debris stoped to see what I wanted. I told him where I was looking for the 1st stage. You were looking at the right spot. It must have blown away! I'm kinda busy here so I'll just tell you where to go and look for it.He gave directions and I made the find. Damage was unbeliveable! My guess would be with 4 chainsaws, A frontend loader and a couple trucks to haul stuff away it would take a few days to get through it all. On the way there the County had snow plowing heavy equipment pushing trees to the side of the road.
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loneeagle_24 · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:02 am Post subject:

Just wanted to give an update about LQPSP. All parts of the cache are fine to get to. However the rest of the trails in the lower part of the campground are closed due to all of the trees down that need to be cleaned up yet. I would imagine they will be working on this in the coming weeks to get the trails back open. We also moved the second stage of the cache cause where they had it placed it was just way to easy for a muggle to see and possibly walk off with. Shouldn't be real tough to get to but it is hid a lot better than it was.

The caches at Upper sioux are good to go. they had minimal damage there compared to LQP.
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loneeagle_24 · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

I guess I never thought about that. We didn't move it all that far. When I get home from work I'll have to look into it and see if I actually have the #'s yet. It is just that they had the cache right under one of the signs with info on it. I was surprised that it hadn't gotten muggled previous to this. I could see the cache from the trail before I even got close. Now it is hidden much better. Should be a bit easier to maintain as well where it is at now.
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