Sluglife

From the graph at right, you can see that we missed the poorly-named "Action stage" -- we refer to it as "Warning Stage," thank you very much.

But it is important to note just how fast the river went up. The graph is pretty much flat until around January 4th. From there it went up over twenty feet in a very short period of time. The predicted drop, as you can see, is pretty quick, too, but rains next week will still have an impact because the ground is saturated.

So what does this look like?

Again, looking across the river. If you've been down to the edge of the river in the summertime, you've inevitably looked up at the road running along the river. The text on the picture is where the road is, which should give you a little perspective on the relative height of the river.

Again from the NOAA page, they list the Top Ten historical crests. I know Lana and Gary have nightmares about a number of the dates on the list. For us, our little flood back in 2006 made the top 10!

One other thing from the list, you can see from numbers 1, 5, and 10 that while we're in absolutely no danger right now, the rainy season on the river has really just started.

But that was then, and this is now -- our little home is a bit soggy, but nicely high and dry.