I am the buddy, and we made the drive - now it is first hand. Fno is correct, Madison is definitely closed. Martz Sink was almost half way full up the steps and milky/near zero viz. Then chased the high water going south. Had a ok dive vis wise at Peacock past Challenge yesterday - the Peanut line was good, Olsen to Challenge sucked, Crossover - ehh, but have no clue what happened since yesterday - I expect it is or is getting ugly. Last night after peacock we stopped by Little River after hours - it was Super Clear (last night)...so we decided to dive LR today before it went under, we got there today and it was just a tannic, inward flowing cyclone...man that happened fast. Immediately called Cathy at Dive Outpost this morning about Cow and she said a team had gone in this morning - milky basin and tannic in the upstream - they never found the mainline. 2 for 2 - we chased the river rise south again and had a nice scooter dive at Manatee today (Friday). Only two teams the whole day. A GUE couple on RB's were just exiting at Catfish where we dropped our shoes. We were the second team and went in at Freidman and back until our scooters said enough. Vis was reasonable, chunky up front and some particulate in the back. Exited at Catfish. Flow was down from normal, but still a bit above Ginnie.

The choices are narrow, but some good diving to be had.

Gonna be here for a couple of weeks, so trying to find info on the JB area. Anybody? (RN, I left you a voicemail).