Flooding, low level

The heavy rain of the last few days has started to have its effect. Wennerberg Park is partially flooded, in part because water just hasn't drained, but in part because, on the lower, southern, end, the Yamhill River banks have overflowed.

Not that much of this is likely to help a great deal in what may be drought this summer; the effect on the snowpack is unlikely to be very great. But it does make us wonder what's happening elsewhere around the region, since the river here is usually about five or six feet below the park level.