The Potomac River at Great Falls, Virginia
Went down to Great Falls on the Potomac River on Thursday, June 29th, which is about 20 miles West of downtown DC. We had over 11 inches of rain in the Washington DC metro area over the last 5 days or so and the water guages (and this one which looks a bit broken) predicted a peak flow at Little Falls (just upstream) sometime on Thursday. It was not as full as I experienced about 10 years ago, but it was impressive, complete with shaking ground, roaring noise, and mesmorizing motion. If we could only harness that power :-)
Videos are fairly small (shot with a cell phone), but you get the idea:
Movie1, Movie2
Still photographs show the power a wee bit better IMO:
Photos
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