Photo differences in a month

I posted these photos last month of the Samish River last month:

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now look at the river:

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here is a photto of the USGS Conservation guy measuring the river:

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here's another view of now:

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Here is a salmon fighting through the shallows trying to go up stream:

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here is what he would have to negotiate today:

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I was standing in the middle of the river on a gravel bar under the bridge taking this photo:

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Today I would have been standing in water well over my head :

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At 8 a.m this morning we had received 8 1/2 inches of rain. And it was pouring down rain ALL Day and all this evening. Last time I heard, we had well over 20 inches of rain since Midnight last night.

Flood stage in downtown Mt. Vernon (only a little ways down stream on the Skagit River from me is 36 1/2 feet. They are expecting the river to crest at 41 feet if the rain persists! They are already calling for Sandbaggers to help reinforce the dikes!

Looks like it might get doggone wet around here and we may be evacuated!

Dick