We liked watching the creek rise and flood.
When Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines last week, it flooded Metro Manila, the administrative region of the capital, and the water in the creek rose so high that it washed away Ms. Perdito's home, along with the others.
Then I'm going past a plowed field, water in the valleys of the harrow's talons, on the water the upside-down crowns of bare trees, mist above the creek rising like fine baby hair, I am driving as the crow flies, beside the crow.
These houses had indoor plumbing (we lived in suburban Florida, not rural Appalachia) and had to be attached by water, sewer and electrical lines, which would have limited their movement during what were not major floods, but basically the creek rising a few feet above its banks.
The creeks rise, the bayous rise and any additional rainfall we get is just aggravating any flooding we have," he said.
It also caused a nearby creek to rise.
On the western end, the path follows the creek upstream, rising for four miles through Boulder Canyon.
