Nooksack @ Nugent's Corner Bridge

Here's the USGS river monitoring hut, getting inundated by the Nooksack...

Looking east on Mt. Baker Hwy, towards Nugent's Corner. Just behind those trees to the right of the phone pole is the wildlife rescue place we took a fledgling hummingbird to when we first bought Seven Trees. It's also the parking area for public river access.

Some kids on the riverbank, looking upstream. Normally the water is a braided bunch of channels here, and lots of the typical round river rock cobbles. Not today though!

Looking downriver, right on the edge of the bank. Fergus the wonder corgi was ready to wade right in.

Here's D, with Fergus and Stewart, who is obviously bored by the whole flood experience, judging by the big puppy yawn.

Rainy day recess!

The rain and wind have been so extreme today, I only made it an hour at work before deciding to come back to keep an eye on Seven Trees. Not much let-up since Sunday afternoon, with amazing wind gusts and constant torrential rain. Most rivers in western WA are flooding, including the Nooksack. I drove to the bridge in Everson and saw the water nearly up over the banks at a park in town.

Here's a flood chart for a gauge a couple miles the other direction on the Nooksack -

And here's how Fergus and Stewart spent the morning -