The other day Mom, Mae and I went to the Brevard library to get some more books because earlier that day we got a new library card for the Hendersonville library and we only could get two books per person. On the way we stopped at the French Broad (our local river and the third oldest river in the world!) to see the flooding. It had rained for a few days, and the waters were lapping at the parking lot’s edge! The boardwalk can float, normally it is almost flat (it is about 160-degree of an angle) but this time the upper half was covered in water and it was about a 270-degree angle. We left a stick to mark the water height in the parking lot, but I just set it down and did not stick it in. On the way back we found some insane flooding, a few days before it was a campground and now is a lake! Once we got back the stick had drifted off, but it left a mark where I put it. We estimated it to have risen five feet in an hour and twenty minutes. That’s about three quarters of an inch a minute!