Living Through The El Nino Of '98

by Kristen Fox and John McNally

This is a photo of the windmill field - just a regular, ordinary, green field.. Or at least it WAS the
field. The windmill (not in the photo) would be to the right.. The stream is even further off to the
right, also not in this photo. (The misty mountains are pretty cool here, eh?)

During the night of the most flooding, water began rushing down our little side road. At first we
thought it was just a lot of runoff from the saturated hilly ground. Then, just before dawn of that
day, the water stopped - whew! Just AFTER dawn, the rain ALSO stopped, and so we took a
short walk down the road to see what there was to see. Needless to say, we were rather
shocked...

Ahhh, yes, what once was a flat field was now a field of rushing water and a new
waterfall! Somehow our windmill remained standing. We think the huge oaks behind it
helped.

What was once the beautiful green field in the top picture.