We’ve past high flow for the year, and the boulder didn’t shift.
On April 15th it was covered,
and on March 23 the water was about the same level as it was today. It’ll take a heck of a season to move that rock downstream.
The railroad bridge in Durango was swept away in the flood of 1911, and was rebuilt high enough to be safe in a hundred-year flood… if the flooded river just carried water. But water high enough to toss this boulder downstream would take out a few trees, and it would float away some of the trailers in the floodplain upstream of the bridge. Next time there’s a big flood, the water won’t take out the bridge like it did in 1911. Instead, the build-up of trailers knocking against the bridge would likely tear it down. The older I get the more it seems that it’s not the journey that’s the problem; it’s the baggage.
Dear Alice - thanks for your great stories … I always read them first thing in the morning when I come to the office - really brightens up my day
Take care and all the best
Andreas (Vienna / Austria / Europe)
Thanks for commenting, Andreas (sometimes it feels like I’m writing for three locals). Alice
you are also writing for one girl in BC ;D.
Thanks, Paula
And the ES and Geology department at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT!
And thank you too, my dearest Theresita.
Oh, and don’t forget me - city girl in s.e. Michigan (outside Detroit) who wishes she was ‘out West’ most of the time - I love your blog (love your pictures, too) and I learn a lot from it and it sparks a lot of curiosity. Right now I’m particularly curious about water-rights in the West…very interesting.
And I bet those “three locals” enjoy your blog too.
Thanks again.
“Thanks for commenting, Andreas (sometimes it feels like I’m writing for three locals). Alice”
.. and me in Miami
Oh, I love those water photographs and information. The water has so many personalities, passive and quiet, then roaring and sweeping everything with it, Some things in nature are just not going to be controlled.
mum-bear