[Bill Douglas]

Six months ago I went white water rafting. It hadn't rained for months and the river was low - meant getting out of the raft in the very shallow rapids. On the day it started bucketing down with rain. We went over the state highway bridge and saw the shallow water, then got up into the mountains and it was flooding big time. The guides were yahooing. It was a fast and fun trip down the river and the water level in the two hour trip had raised it by about 4 meters at the bridge.