Nearly caught in a flood

We arrived in Wonderland RV park just north of Redding at about 3.30 pm on Friday February 3^rd. Within a short time it started to rain very hard. There was thunder and lightening. It rained continuously for about six hours and we guess it must have been 2-4 inches of rain. We watched a John Wayne movie, which we had bought at a truck stop, in the RV but the noise of the rain made it difficult to hear the dialog. At about 9.30 we found that we were in a flood. There was a creek that ran down beside the RV site had overflowed and the front wheels of the RV were in about six inches of water. With the help of neighbourly advice (we were told it had happened last about six years ago) we moved the RV to higher ground. In the morning the water had subsided. Looking at the creek we estimated that in the night it had been about six feet above its normal level. We checked the weather further north and set off early for Siskiyou pass. The road was bare but wet and the temperature about 11C. The weather was better than what we had experienced travelling south on December 14^th. After Siskiyou we stopped in Ashland. It was sunny and we went for a walk. The Shakespeare festival does not start plays again until February 17th. We have happy memories of previous visits to Ashland. The first was in about 1977 when we flew down with friends in a Cessna 172! We then returned to TriCity RV Park at Myrtle Creek (Passport America and well rated by Good Sam) where we had stayed on the route south in December.