Two days of rain made the creek rise

We have a bridge across the creek that the original pioneers who cleared this land built to access the pasture on the other side. Normally, we have a good eight feet or so between the bottom of the bridge and the top of the creek. Between the spring melt and two days of rain, we now have the creek flowing over the bridge. I took a walk along the road to the county bridge that crosses the creek a couple hundred yards downstream from my bridge. It was built 100 years later, and doesn't go under water after a mere two day rain. From the bridge I watched a pair of ducks paddling upstream, and a beaver working hard to fortify its lodge against the rising waters. That beaver has the right idea. When the waters are rising, adapt or perish. That's how humankind survived the last billion years of evolution. Indeed, we didn't just survive, we flourished! Some would say we over-flourished. Look around. We're so flourishing we're killing the planet. They say climate catastrophe is imminent. On the other side of the bridge, there's a clump of trees that used to be on the edge of the creek that are now in the middle of a river. There's three buzzards roosting in the higher reaches, watching me. Adapt or perish.