Finch Creek Ripping

Our soil was near saturation last week, and although it had a few days of drying, the rains this weekend pushed us over the limit. This is a good example of how things in the environment can "tip". It takes quite a while and many storms to saturate the soil. But once it is full, any subsequent rain just flows off the surfaces and down the hills. March is typically when we get this saturation with floods, mudslides, etc. Saturation happened this weekend. Finch Creek jumped to over 200 cubic feet per second; twice what it was at any time last year. As always, it is prone to sudden ups and downs ("flash") and it is down again Monday afternoon to only 36 cfs.......