@Steve Herman Not living in an area frequently subject to floods, I am always curious what causes so many water related deaths? Is it because people don't know how to swim? Or because they're in a structure and get crushed in it as the structure is swept down stream or? The only floods I've seen first hand were after Mt. St. Helens blew up and all of the sudden a glacier was liquid and flowing downhill. So I really don't have a good appreciation of what happens. I've been in some fairly swift rivers but I've always managed to work my way over to the side and eventually been able to snag a branch or a boulder and get out.