Bragg Creek River Change

It has been 18 days since the flooding of Bragg Creek. The small hamlet of Bragg Creek was completely flooded and the course of the river has changed. The creek that ran beneath the bridge used to be rather small with the main channel running along the south side under the bridge where there were some nice deep fishing holes. With the flood the deep holes have been changed into gravel beds that empty into a new deep channel on the opposite north side of the river when one looks north eastward from the bridge.  If you look to the west where the river approaches the bridge, you will see that the river in overflowing its banks carved out a large swath of the existing highway around the bend in the river.  About a quarter of a mile of highway was washed away, including the old shell gas station, and the attached community store and residence of the owner. Currently, the creek sitll looks like a raging river. At its peak the water in the creek was flowing only a couple of feet beneath the bridge which is normally  forty feet above the normal water level. This was one of several creeks that were overflowing that emptied into the Bow and Elbow rivers.