What a difference a year makes!

[WinterrunRon]

Browsing through some photos from last year and realized the high water ones were taken on 1/31. What a difference a year makes. It seems is either feast or famine in California. I think most of the country believes we have nothing but beaches and boring mid-70 weather here day in and day out. But those of us that live here know different. Seems it's a state of weather extremes, almost from year to year.

American River fish hatchery ladder
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/STA_0196.jpg

Today
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/IMG_0607.jpg

Nimbus Dam and basin with 14 of 18 dam gates open
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/STB_0204.jpg

Today
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/IMG_0613.jpg

Wier posts under water
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/STB_0197.jpg

Today. Those post are probably 12-15 ft above the water level
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/IMG_0608.jpg

Jim's Bridge just below Sunrise Ave
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/WinterrunRon/IMG_1047.jpg

[lee s.]

GRAND pics! Nothing seems quite as dynamic as a live river. Or a river in action. :wink:
....lee s.