Last weekend, there was flooding in my hometown. This video is pretty wild -- my driveway (to the house I grew up in, that subsequently burned down) is just off camera to the right.
http://www.wmtw.com/video/17144859/index.html For the dozen or so people on my friendslist that came up for the clam festival in 1998 (I may be off by a year in either direction), this is the river we bathed in, and about a 15 minute hike downstream from that waterfall.