I rode down to the Cataract Gorge. It seems that about a quarter of the population was there watching the floods - including a number of folks that I knew from the hospital.
The weather service was off by a long shot on predicting the size of the flooding (they predicted 7 meters, but it only got to 3 meters) and it never got close to going over the levees. There were some closed roads and bridges, but no evacuations or buildings damaged.
However the Gorge was pretty spectacular. It wasn't the ground shaking sort of volumes like the 200,000 CFS flood when we were in Maine, but the smaller volume squeezed down a pretty narrow canyon.
For comparison, take a look at the pictures that I posted a few days ago. And, remember that in the video looking down towards the bridge, 2 days ago a tourist boat came to about where the prominent large wave is today.
In the still picture, notice that the chairlift is still running over the river. The outdoor swimming pool is just left of center in the picture, but under enough water that we couldn't see the tops of the very large swing sets by the pool.
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