Four Years Since Irene

Although we had a day of rain raising the river for a time, the level dropped again.  You can tell on a day as quiet as this the stream is shrinking. The rocks rising from the water tell the story.  Just above where water and stone meet a dark line of damp, like a shadow, reveals that the river ran an inch or two higher not long ago.  The flood stoked by Tropical Storm Irene smashed through here exactly four years ago.