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Kingofalldems

(38,468 posts) Sun May 8, 2016, 08:23 PM May 2016

Click to check out the Potomac at Great Falls after 12 days of rain:

https://twitter.com/fbrody/status/729440707702861824

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Click to check out the Potomac at Great Falls after 12 days of rain: (Original Post) Kingofalldems May 2016 OP

What? No kayakers? NV Whino May 2016 #1

That's the first thing I looked for. nt StrayKat May 2016 #2

I think the Park Police now monitor that. Kingofalldems May 2016 #3

Yeah. Several years ago I sat and watched those guys NV Whino May 2016 #4

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

1. What? No kayakers?

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Sun May 8, 2016, 08:31 PM

May 2016

StrayKat

(570 posts)

2. That's the first thing I looked for. nt

Reply to NV Whino (Reply #1)

Sun May 8, 2016, 08:36 PM

May 2016

Kingofalldems

(38,468 posts)

3. I think the Park Police now monitor that.

Reply to NV Whino (Reply #1)

Sun May 8, 2016, 08:43 PM

May 2016

Plenty of kayakers killed even when the river is below normal.

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

4. Yeah. Several years ago I sat and watched those guys

Reply to Kingofalldems (Reply #3)

Sun May 8, 2016, 08:51 PM

May 2016

Even with a normal to low flow I couldn't believe what they were doing. What really blew my mind was, once having run the rapids, they turned around and fought the river back upstream. Fools, each and every one of them.

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