D River, in Lincoln City, Oregon has the claim of being the World’s Shortest River – However – Today – it’s just a bit shorter!

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This Morning – We noticed that the lake had risen to be above our dock, which usually only happens after days of pouring down rain.  We’ve had a huge weather system come through, but mostly wind and hail – not alot of rain.  We were just talking about water and gravity, and distribution and the D River – and how it all equals out – helping us not to flood.

This afternoon – when we were driving through town boy boys started screaming about the river being GONE!

Ya. Riiiiiieeeeght.

Well – I pulled around and we went back to take a look – and they were right!

The river was gone! 

There was an expert out there taking measurements and such when we walked through the dry sandy river bed, that is usually a rock bed, and he said this is the 3rd time this year that the ocean has had such a huge storm that it has shoved so much sand up that it has blocked the flow of the river.  We could see where the river was slowly pushing its way westward, and by the time we left an hour or so later – we could see where the high tide was likely to reach that mark – but for a while – no river.  VERY STRANGE in deed! Here are some photos of our walk –

The bridge is Hwy 101

Storm Pic – looking West    

The water here is the high tide starting to go east – one more hour til the high tide mark.