Wakeboarding above dead people??

[Jet]

Not sure if we have spoke about this on here or not?? Ok, my wife freaks out about wakeboarding and surfing at night, it freaks her out because she cant see whats under the water and I always say "Theres nothing down there to worry about" Hope she doesn't see this. lol. This is a lake just south of Dallas called Lake Belton that a few of our wakeboarding friends use and live by. I think Corey even lost a prop and a strut before it got this low. Jet

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weath...27675971750=17

[kaneboats]

"Local historian Alfred Hallmark, whose great-great-great grandfather helped establish Bluffton, said his research showed 389 graves were moved starting in 1931 when dam construction began."

Don't let her watch this one:

"You only moved the headstones!!!!!!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tO0xwSsco

[bergermaister]

Ha - now that's the making for a new scary movie!

We have a similar situation up here. They dammed a river back in the 60's to create a reservoir and covered a little town called Kosmos, or what was left of it. Water out there is 100-300ft + though so if we ever see parts of that town start emerging I'd say we're totally screwed.

It's kind of interesting though - one of the launches at a park is the old two lane road. Just heads right into the abyss.

[chawk610]

You're right Berg! In theaters this summer... "Wake of the Dead"

[KG's Supra24]

We have Lake Tenkiller here locally. It was a river turned lake and supposedly most of a town is still under there.

[KG's Supra24]

Maybe this is an appropriate place for this? It's funny either way ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CY_HGl6W2U

[wolfeman131]

girls in bikinis are appropriate in almost any thread on this board.

[bergermaister]

[you da man]

Jet - That IS NOT Lake Belton...that IS Lake Buchannan. Cory and I wakeboard together occassionally but almost always will see each other on the water. The article also says that the remains were removed prior to the lake being filled. Most large man-made reseviors will have covered old cemetaries...especially those small rural family ones. They do move the graves. Finding bones/skulls is very rare during extreme droughts but there are unmarked graves or even unknown burial sites. If you drive into the hill country of Texas those very small family or community cemetaries are everywhere it seems. As a small kid I would trespass onto ranchers' properties looking for creeks to fish in and I would come across an individual grave or two with almost no markings or headstone. Most maps of large lakes will show where old cemetaries were. I'm sure Lake Belton has a couple under water as it flooded 5 small communities when it was built.

[jpetty3023]

While this article doesn't talk about Belton lake specifically if we don't get more rain soon we may uncover a grave or two