12/3/14 - 49ers Vs. Redskins Vs. Seahawks Vs. Flooding

I didn't have a chance to get in between the two games, and after the Seahawks we got some much needed rain. That means exciting creek flooding. Fortunately, it wasn't completely depressing like one of my first posts.

It gets pretty high since this creek is one of the four main thoroughfares for flood control of Silicon Valley, at least as far as I am aware. Going from east to west, there's: Coyote Creek, Guadalupe River / Alviso Slough, San Tomas Aquino Creek (this one) / Guadalupe Slough, and Stevens Creek.

Some days the creek floods the bike path, sometimes making things more difficult, and sometimes it's so deep it's impassable. Usually, the city closes off the bike path when the water gets dangerously high on the bike path.

Now here's where a lot of the litter collects from game traffic due to wind, etc. As mentioned prior, the wind blows the litter down the slope closer to the water over time, and now the water rose to meet it and take it to its final destination, whether that's the Bay or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Here's the same location looking back on the stadium. I will probably find that basketball on my next trip out to the bay.

Here's the underpass under highway 101. It's about 2' deep today here, enough to warrant pedaling through in a pretty low gear.

Here's the transition upstream from mostly natural waterway to concrete lined waterway.

So, very little litter seen floating by, which is nice to see, but also probably a whole lot washed away litter from the creek banks.