Mt Baker hwy. flooding

Hi... just a quick post today to show you some more of the power of nature. Granted... for those of you who've experienced fires and mud slides in So. Cal... you may not need extra reminding... but for those who haven't... here's a few pic's from a slide/flood that shut down Mt Baker hwy. the other day. Traffic was shut down to one lane while they were clearing the debris, so I had to take some of these on the fly. All the pic's I took showing where the flood came from, crossing Mt. Baker, didn't come out well... so all I got is where it went afterwards.... 

The width of the path of debris that crossed the highway was over 250 feet wide. Huge stumps and logs were piled up along the edge of the road. Most seemed to be stripped bare of their bark... as if sand blasted... But I don't have those pic's.

A 'small' river of water 6 inches high was still running across the road this day while the city was bringing in new top soil to try and fill in the gaps on one side, and continuing to asses the next steps on the other.

  
There is a short residential road named "Truck Rd.' that by passes the the site on Mt. Baker and that's where these following  pic's are taken from. You can start to get an idea of just how far & wide this one was. Just beyond and to the left of the buildings in the back ground is where Mt. Baker hwy. is and where I took the first shots above. 

    
This shot is part of the panorama and is actually the view, a little to the right of the above pic. The water just spread out once it hit the flats...

Then moving right from the above pic's... here's where it crossed over 'Truck Rd.'

And continuing to pan right, you can see it flowing off into the distance... It's actually 3x's as wide as this pic shows, but you get the big picture... so to speak. Witnessing something on such a grand scale can leave one sort of  in awe... It takes a while for the brain to absorb what it's looking at. The immense power of nature is always all around us, but sometimes we don't notice until some thing this, obviously profound happens... This might just as well be Mother Nature sneezing for all we know... drawing our attention back to the very bosom that cradles life on this spinning rock...