It really is! We had so much rain on Tuesday that there were Looky-loos all over town to see the river on Wednesday morning. I was one of them, and now you get to see too.
This is standing on the Dinely Bridge looking upstream. (See St. Anthony’s Retreat on the hillside to the right of the river?)
Just for comparison, here it is in March. 
This is not a place that I normally photograph so I have nothing for you to compare with it. However, check out those waves!
This is the river outside The Art Co-op on Wednesday morning. Compare it with August: 
Fascinating in a terrifying way, no?
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Yep. I ran around taking photographs, too… On Kaweah River Drive, it was a repeat of ’02. Pretty impressive. The Main Fork ran higher, of course, swallowing up most of the island that’s been out there for years, but it’s the “little” river that we look forward to seeing, and it roared through the old river channel and stayed there for a day or two, before going down and disappearing into the sand once again. We really enjoyed the “show”, and hope it comes back again for good, soon… Despite all that wild water, the big oaks and sycamores and a few small white firs managed to hang on tight, but so many smaller trees, bushes, and other plants are gone now. My backyard looks completely different, as each river bring things and each takes them away… On the Main Fork side, a thin line of trees and a tangle of blackberries remain. The rest is gone – oh, and we have a long narrow white sand beach on the Main Fork once again!
My new next door neighbor lost everything she had left outside, in the old river channel. Guess she didn’t realize what the rivers can do. Across the Main Fork, at Rio Sierra Riverhouse (behind the blue wooden fence on Sierra Drive), it seems they also lost everything they had placed out in the old river channel. Guess they didn’t realize, either.
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