Standing in ankle to shin deep water, which extends at least 10 meters behind me, with Red Rise Brook 30 meters or so in front of me...the forest is wet. Falling on already sodden ground Storm Dennis' heavy rains have nowhere to go, so just stand waiting their turn to flow down stream. This section of Red Rise Brook was restored a good many years ago, the meanders restored and it's width and depth reduced, it's only about a meter and a half wide normally, not so today. This is one of the desired effects of the restoration though, that the water remains on the land longer, thus reducing the chance and severity of flash flooding further down stream in more densely inhabited areas.
The video is taken a short ways up stream, on a corner where there's a very deep pool, even in the dry season. Just beyond the corner is a crossing point (normally either very shallow or a mix of very shallow and gravel banks), we passed here the other day and it was easy to cross, the gravel exposed in the middle. I would say the the shallows are waist to chest deep, the corner pool 2 to 3 meters deep, and that water would easily force you over and take you off. As I wrote yesterday, the tame forest streams can become anything but tame.
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