True. I should point out, lest anyone this was casual and low risk and be tempted to emulate, several things I knew before attempting it. I knew the water level within a few inches from http://water.weather.gov and from slogging through there numerous times at lower levels. I knew the upstream levels, and the rainfall in the watershed area so I knew there would be no flash flood rise. I knew exactly where the path was and what it does having been over it literally thousands of times. And finally I knew what the creek current is like there at flood levels.

There's no way I'd ride through water that deep randomly, nor an overflowed creek that I didn't know intimately.