Rainy season, which started in April, has brought a few floods -
In general, I don't mind them, and consider them far less destructive than what we were used to in SC. That said, we do live on the side of a mountain - a very rocky mountain - and when the water gets going, some of the rocks in the stream move ... a couple days/nights have sounded like we live next to a bowling alley .... that said, I was not pleased to discover that a couple VW sized rocks had headed down stream... fortunately, they were replaced by interesting new rocks:
While we haven't been inconvenienced by this relocation, others have because they need to get to their properties by crossing the bridge ...
So you see how half the flow is plugged with rocks? And, let me assure you that those tubes are MUCH smaller in diameter than the rocks that got washed away... Don't know who was brilliant enough to design that sort of bridge for our type of river. The old bridge was much more sensible:
Yes, it's falling to bits due to old age, but the interesting thing is that when the flood was at it's worst & going over the new bridge, the old one was out of the flow & despite its ffy looks, is still strong enough to hold a full dump truck.
