so about ten weeks ago i went down to leesburg; monocacy was wadable; potomac was almost too low to get the car on the ferry.

so today, one snow storm and an ice storm later, the monocacy is up over its banks, and the potomac was too high for the ferry to operate. i read over someone's shoulder a couple weeks ago in the frederick post that the potomac at point of rocks was so high they had to restrict recreational boating. the water's up to the parking lot at edward's ferry; it's up all the way over the ferry ramp on the VA side of white's ferry, and almost that high in the MD side.

the patuxent is twice as high this weekend as it was last weekend (but still not full--i think it's subject to flow controls.)

so i guess we change the forum subject from "drought" to "flood"? :)