Anyone else been flooded?
As in the river overflowing it's banks? Well, I have. 😋😁😉
Ya just can't make this stuff up, life is weird.
This happened the night of New Year's Day, along the American River, around 3:00 AM. I was cowboy camping (no tent), and thought I'd left plenty of room for the river, in case it rose a bit. 🙄
It rose alright, but must have been like 5 or 6 feet higher than the bank, in about 4 hours. 😲 Apparently, the rivers will rise way more than just the local rainfall. All the creeks & runoff from other places feed it too, making it really tricky to guess how much it'll rise. 🤔
I lost a bag of groceries and one of my bungie cords for my sleeping bag, lol, but otherwise, I'm fine. Plus I just got a little smarter (hopefully), about sleeping anywhere near a river. 😋😉
I see there was a LOT of crazy stuff happening lately, here in California. I guess I got off with a warning, from Mother Nature. 😉