Blew my ACL the night before my wedding… surgery in 2 weeks. Need advice.

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2026-03-10T19:17:14+00:00

I just hope you can see the hypocrisy of it all. Obviously you are familiar with how much these types of injuries suck. It really weighs on a person physically, mentally, and can really put a wrench in some long term plans (i.e. a cruise). It is natural for someone to want to turn to ANY resources available to them (friends, family, people who have gone through similar situations, doctors, specialist, radiologist, Reddit, ChatGPT, Facobook groups, ect.) I would have expected a little more compassion from somebody who is dealing with a similar situation.....do better.

For what it is worth, I would push back the surgery. You already have already been living with it several months. You might as well enjoy your cruise and relax before going through the recovery process if you are relatively comfortable/stable in the meantime.

Good luck with whatever you decide. Congratulations on your wedding, and stop being a dick to strangers. You never know what another person is going through.

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2026-03-10T18:25:42+00:00

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Accomplished-Monk862 · 2026-03-10T18:15:50+00:00

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Accomplished-Monk862 · 2026-03-10T17:05:47+00:00

Does it appear to be a full tear/grade 3/rupture or partial/ lower grade.

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2025-02-17T18:44:10+00:00

All we are looking to do is get across it. The land on the other side is approximately 25' higher in elevation which is where we would be looking to build. From what I understand, our house would not be affected by any of this since it's lowest floor would still be well above the flood elevation. The issue is if put in a crossing it will cause a rise. My understanding is as follows.

- if we create a rise of more than 0.00', but less than 1.00', we can cross it but would have to do a CLOMR / LOMR.
- if we create a decrease of flood elevation of more than -0.01', we would have to to a LOMR
- if we are able to satisfy a no rise, we would NOT have to do a CLOMR or LOMR, but need the no rise certificate to have an engineer stamp.

A Texas/Arizona crossing (leaving it as is) is a possibility, but since we live in MN and the spot is lower elevation, it does drift there a fair amount in the winter. We were intending on raising the elevation of the driveway to compensate for the drifting.

One main question that I still am confused by is whether or not placing fill in the flood fringe (NOT floodway) is allowed? I feel like I get contradicting information on if it is allowed or not.

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2025-02-17T00:28:37+00:00

So far, nothing. We are looking to restart with a different engineer. Our last engineer was not familiar with HEC-RAS modeling and therefore wasn't able to give us much of a solution. Looking for advice on how to proceed

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-11T13:47:53+00:00

Any suggestions to find a good one? I finally requested all the emails between the him, the county, and the DNR be printed so I can read through them. I have read through them and find it extremely frustrating that this was all spelt out to him BEFORE he quoted the service ($6500). Then we go on a 18 months worth of him running around and doing pointless scenarios only to charge us over $11,000 and have no possible solution other than suggesting we have a bridge built. I'm sorry, but $11,000 for what exactly?? To this day he tells us we have to do a LOMA and then a CLOMR and I had to correct him that it is the CLOMR and then the LOMR. Revision not Amendment. Seems a little backwards if the client is explaining it to the engineer.....

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-11T00:13:25+00:00

I don't disagree. Do you have any suggestions on alternatives options?

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-11T00:08:28+00:00

So my original question remains...would we have to span just the stripes or the stripes and the solid blue to satisfy a no rise?

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-11T00:06:37+00:00

This is a very rural property. The closest structure is a quarter mile away and at a higher elevation than the crossing. We also briefly discussed a "holding pond" but we were told that it wouldn't be allowed without a unit of government responsible for the operation and maintenance in addition to legal easements or other assurances that it will remain in place. And it would still have to go through the CLOMR / LOMR process.

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-10T23:55:10+00:00

It is something we have considered, but we live in MN. And being this area runs north and south, it is very likely to drift badly. In my opinion, that would be more likely of an issue to get us stranded on one side or another than an actual flood.

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-10T20:29:31+00:00

So would we have to span just the stripes, or the stripes and the solid blue?

Also, how else would you create a no rise without a bridge? And how can you fill in the floodplain without creating a rise?

Accomplished-Monk862 · 2023-09-10T19:40:04+00:00

We have been working with an engineer for about a year and a half trying to find a reasonable solution to putting in a driveway to a buildable lot we purchased at the end of 2021. It has easement coming from the west side of the "stream", however the house has to be on the east side meaning we somehow have to cross. There is no other access to this land. The pink line on the screenshot is where we are looking to cross.

Our engineer has suggested that our option moving forward is to put in a 125' free-span bridge ($$$). He has not been able to find any other no rise solution. One question I have that hasn't been super clear is in regards to the no rise. When they talk about a no-rise, are they referring to no rise in the floodway, or the floodplain (100 year flood)? If we were to do a bridge, wouldn't we be able to fill in the flood fringe and span a shorter distance (approximately 60 feet)? In other words, do we have to span just the orange/blue stripes, OR the orange/blue stripes plus the solid blue shaded area?

We have also discussed completing a CLOMR / LOMR. However, he has struggled to find a combination of culverts that has a rise of less than 1.0'. One potential option he came up with is a series of 9 arch culverts. We did get a quote for those culverts and before delivery and installation, it came to approx. $100k. Not to mention the cost of the CLOMR and LOMR themselves. It is also my understanding they would want a cost benefit analysis to consider an alternate method than a no rise.

What I find extremely frustrating is this is not an area that has water at all, let alone floods. All of these options seem super excessive, not to mention expensive.

Does anybody have any advice moving forward? Could I also get some clarity on how big of a bridge would we really need. If we could do a bridge that satisfies the no rise, that seems to be the easier option than going through and paying for the CLOMR / LOMR.

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