Glad to hear you found the boat Josh

'Duc is still rolling along, was at 47 boards last night and I know it has dropped some, but not a lot yet.

Other rivers have finally peaked and are dropping pretty fast right now, but that drop will slow ... it's tough to hold the sort of flows we've seen for too long with any decrease in rain.

I've seen the rivers a fair amount higher. The big storm of December 1999 set a lot of the all-time flow records out here and we were still about 1.5 feet below that. You expect those sorts of storms in December, but rarely March. Only once before have I seen that much water in March that I can recall.

The Calawah gauge usually shows the rise first as it's a shorter river and the water makes it down to the gauging station quicker. Levels during a storm also vary by watershed based on the track of the storm.

The Hoh has actually been higher than this this year, but it was far and away the biggest blast of the winter on the Quillayute system.

What's been different though, is that the rain was long-lived and it kept the flows up there for 12-18 hours vs. a hard spike and immediate drop ... that's where I think we'll see the biggest influence of the water on the Hoh, it should have had time to allow stuff to pile up and do some digging instead of just up, and down, dropping it's load.

Sounds like the worst of the rains are over, but they're keeping a close eye on the next round of wind.

Not really sure what we ended up with for town rainfall as gauge readings went down with power, but I saw that the Upper Hoh had over 8 inches of rain in 24 hours and I would be willing to guess that winds this morning at our hourse were pushing 65-70 mph in the gusts ... pretty wild!