6-16-08 River Report

[wacky worm]

well the weekend was a slop fest

with all the rain the big campgrounds had to evacuate from the rising river

and at 2:30 in the morning

can you imagine waking up the drunken dead to move all of there stuff

thank goodness we had no one on our campground because it was under water before all that rain

only one outfitter was floating on sat witch was stupid

i heard a girl went over the dam at noel and somehow lived

i also heard that river patrol and first responders had to save 4 lives

we decided not to rent on sunday for safety reasons and i am glad

jean ann and i went riding around to look at the river and such

when we got to low water bridge it was a panic scene i saw some dude yelling at a river patrol man

this idiot had a little baby in his hands

nothing shocks me any more

three girls in a canoe 1 on top of a cooler dumped and had to be saved

the river is falling fast by mid week it should be somewhat back to normal

to be ohnest what is normal anymore?

so it was getting around 5 on sunday

we called my sister leah and said lets go run the big sugar

so we loaded up 3 yaks and off we went to deep ford

we put in there and ran over craig o lee

it was awesome

i was in the crazy 88 and that boat is crazy

we stopped right after that to dump water out of our boats

then this group of kids on tubes with a dog in a jife jacket go over craig o lee

the dog panics and darn near drowns

i have come to the conclusion you cant fix stupid

any ways that run right now is yakers dream

keep floating

russ

[ollie]

I would tell you to go further upstream and catch the "ledge", but for logistics it sucks. Have to put in way upstream from it and the take out is about as far. I'm thinking about going down there and running the bridge several times again! That is a blast.