Picture a river valley in the spring. When the ice first melts away the river is likely running high with spring runoff. At first there isn’t an issue as the river bed can handle the increased flow of water. Then one of those spring rain storms moves in. The type where it pours buckets of rain for several days. As all of this water makes it’s way into the watershed large scale flooding starts. In the most extreme cases the floods spread for miles beyond the river and doesn’t se […]
