More flood stuff

It's raining again. Floods are warned, again. Bringing me back to the discussion of last week...

I got an 'after' picture 2 days after the floods, when the road was still closed but the waters had subsided considerably.

It's really hard to get a picture of the valley but this is from the east side, looking toward the bridge (the bluish structure in the middle of the picture.)



Compare this to the 'before' picture that I posted some time ago from the other side:


You can see that it's a fairly wide valley, and flat. The river winds through the center of it and is normally about 8 feet below its bank and, obviously, usually confined to the area UNDER the bridge. From either side, you can't usually see water at all. The debris that was caught up in fences and road signs indicates that the water, during the flood, was ALL the way across the valley itself.