My dinner cooking tongs are still hanging in the tree though. Sure would have been a shame to lose them. This does help me gauge the river height here though. The river didn't get as high as these. This brings to mind a recent idea I had about putting some type of objects on a tree every few inches that would be taken by the river in a flood if the river rose. I think I'll have to come up with a plan to do this to actually see how high the river gets in these situations. It surely would help when considering my cabin building plans in the future.