Upper Taum Sauk Lake dam failed this morning

This is about 10 miles from where we were last weekend (brushy creek). I was taking pictures of Proffit Mountain on Saturday. Now trucks get swept off hwy N by water and people get evacuated. craziness... I swear I didn't do it.

(c) 2005 The Associated Press
LESTERVILLE, Mo. — A dam in rural southeast Missouri failed Wednesday morning after a night of heavy rain and one person was missing in what officials called a "very dangerous situation."

A family of five was rescued after the Upper Taum Sauk Lake Dam failed at about 6:24 a.m., Reynolds County Sheriff's dispatcher Ginger Bell said. The National Weather Service warned that conditions along the Black River were creating a "dangerous and life-threatening situation." Residents of Lesterville and elsewhere downstream from the dam were urged to move quickly to higher ground.

Small creeks and streams, country roads and farmland will be flooded, the agency said. The dam is in the Ozarks, about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis. Reynolds County has a population of about 6,700

LINKS:
News page about it from KSDK Note, that page changes as news comes in.
News story on yahoo
IEEE link about the pumped-storage hydroelectric plant
Black River watershed hydrology