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Coming from the sky, and it was so loud it was deafening. Believe it. Over sunday night into monday morning, it came up 10 feet in about 8 hours. This was guerneville in the el nino of 1986, after 2 feet of rain fell in 10 days, swelling the Russian River to grotesque proportions. 48. 8 feet that is still a record here in guerneville. How high is 48. 8 feet . Well, you see the old guerneville bridge over there . The water came all the way up to the walkway. Locals still call this the great valentines flood, but there is no romance here not when water consumed this community and caused 40 million damage. River road lived up to its name. Cars looked more like boats. The local delicatessen like a wadethrough restaurant. And heres the center of town. Water flowed so fast that, to cross, residents clung to a rope. Nobody told us nothing. They just said it wasnt gonna flood bad, and my house is, like, now underwater and everything i own, you know . There was no way out for more than a thousa

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