We got through last night, and are waiting for the next go-round of heavy rain predicted for this afternoon, and 8 - 12 inches of snow in tonight's forecast. Looking outside right now, it's hard to believe that will come about, and sometimes the storms completely miss us.

This is Rabbit Creek, the tributary to our Big Thompson River at my house. In the 2013 flood Rabbit Creek destroyed the yard in front of my house, so it is a force to be reckoned with.

Last night, it was a couple of inches from those sand bags, and I worried all night that it would overflow into my yard.



This morning I discovered the stream channel moved 10 feet, leaving the sand bags high and dry.



Now, it's eating away at the big sand bank left by the 2013 flood. It built up during that previous flood because the water flow was slowed by debris downstream.





This is a good thing to have nature clean out that channel, as long as it doesn't start eroding the historical bank. I think it will be okay because there were big boulders placed there in 1976 after another big flood.