Wall of water
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/08/05/wallofwater.ap/index.html (link now broken)
The sudden release of water from Ralston Reservoir south of Auburn sent a “wall of water three to four-feet high” down the Middle Fork of the American River, said California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Marshall.
That’s the river that we rafted down a couple weeks ago during our 5th Annual Cousins Trip. If it had happened during our trip, I still probably would’ve been the first one to fall in.