Categories: 2016 Fire Season

Big Sur River at 10′ and rising

5:30 pm – flow is now the second highest recorded, only behind the one in 1978.

Here is an interesting comparison of the state of the river from noon until 4:30. PHoto by Jeff Mallory

4:15 pm scanner reports log jam just broke free and debris flowing down river. Per Nadine Clark and Brendon Shave.

It looks like the river just past its high water mark from January 4.

10+ Feet and rising fast.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=11143000

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Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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