[pct-l] Snow

[Georgi Heitman]

Marion...you're right.  I'd forgotten that...too caught up in our own little 
drama.  The rushing water washed our road out in four places, Dennie drove 
into one of them and partially drowned his pickup.  Whitewater canoer I then 
gave him a quick lesson in standing waves and what they usually mean.  After 
he finished swearing, we found a friend with a bigger truck to come pull him 
out, the interior of his p.up finally dried out about three weeks later.
Once the water in our little creek went back down, Dennie and I took a 
couple of buckets and went from pool to pool of standing water, scooping up 
the trapped trout and dumping them back in the creek.  We were only one step 
ahead of a great blue heron, scrounging it's breakfast.
And once all the fish we could find were replaced, I went on a hunt for my 
washed-away split rail fence...found all but one railing, replaced it with 
one that floated into our yard from somewhere up stream, could tell it 
wasn't ours, it was too long.
Georgi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion Davison" <mardav at charter.net>
To: "Georgi Heitman" <bobbnweav at citlink.net>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Snow


> Georgi Heitman wrote:
>
>>Joann, et al,
>>  But I do remember New Year's Eve of '97, I think, we got a Pineapple 
>> Express storm with rains to over 7000 feet that melted everything in 
>> sight, washed out creeks, changed streambeds all over the valley.
>>
> Yes, it was '97.  That is the storm that flooded Yosemite Valley and took 
> out many facilities there.  Some, like the river campgrounds, were never 
> replaced.
> Marion
>
>