My long-term flood deposit study site on the Verde River (1992-2010) not only reveals my advancing age, but provides an interesting series of photo comparisons. I discussed this on the Fresh Geologic Froth blog previously: http://geofroth.posterous.com/18-years-of-flood-wrought-change-verde-river Here is a video of the site that brings it to life a bit more...even with high-tech, on-the-fly photo comparisons. Witty dialog as well. Enjoy...or not:

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lna5NTA_7vY

While you are at it, check out this (once banned and even kept from my prying eyes while I was doing dissertation research on the Verde) video taken by the USGS during a very large flood in February 1993. The gage is less than half a mile from the site in my video:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bczAOaZoaHI&feature=related

This turns out to have been the second largest flood on record ( 124,000 cfs) for the Verde (aside from one larger, but quite uncertain historical flood in 1891), but since it occurred slightly more than a month after the largest flood on record in early January, 1993 (145,000 cfs)...you can ignore it in the annual flood series...hooray!...well maybe...boo!  Anyway, the video was banned for a while because of the absurd risks taken by the USGS technicians. I am certain that they would dispute my characterization of their actions as absurd. I am glad that they got some real data from a huge flood since that almost never happens.