Floating Past

Tonight, I would sit on the balcony and watch the occasional tree trunk float past, but it's too cool outside. For months we've known the rivers here would eventually flood. The snow pack during the winter reached record levels. There should be no surprise that as it melts, the majority runs towards the ocean.

The mighty Fraser River cuts through 1,400 kilometers of British Columbia. It also runs right by where we live. By the time the Fraser gets to New Westminster though, it's pretty much tamed and channeled by dikes and other containment. Also, even the basement of this building is many meters above the maximum crest possible and we're on the tenth floor.

Even though my feet have little chance of getting wet, it's interesting keeping up with the developments of the flood watch. Oops, there goes another one-hundred foot tree floating by ...