Well, I just experienced my first serious flood here, and while the water rose to pretty scary heights down the road and through the river and the creeks, tearing out chunks of road, heaving debris all over and washing away banks and taking down trees (I saw this happen and it was unnerving), this place didn't suffer much. We lost electricity for half a day and had to go out and dig a channel along the side of the road to divert the water roiling down the mountain and into my yard but that wasn't bad at all. A lot of people suffered much worse, especially those with houses right on the creek and river banks.
 
And then, in the rain with the waters roaring down the mountain, we took a ride out on the quad to see what was happening downstream. Um...yikes.



This was the end of the road, and we couldn't go any further. It was moving fast, and washing the road out with it.



One of the overflowing creeks.



Same creek, overflowed through the woods.



Normally, this is about a 25 foot drop from where I'm up on the road.



Watched the water cut away the bank, and a huge, live tree go down. Didn't like it.

Some of the roads are closed because the pavement was buckled and torn away. 

The deer were running all over the place, panicked at the changing landscape. 

It was an astounding day.