When you get out of your car at the viewing parking lot of Elk Falls in Campbell River, you can feel the ground move.
The falls are the biggest they have been in recent memory because B.C. Hydro has had to double the flow to avoid possible flood problems in the Upper Campbell Reservoir/Buttle Lake.
That has turned a normally beautiful, scenic falls into a raging torrent, pounding into the canyon and sending mist hundreds of feet into the air.
On Saturday, the parking lot was packed with cars as people took the opportunity to see the falls like they're rarely seen.
On the viewing platform beside the falls, you can't hear someone speaking beside you and you had better have rain gear on even if it's sunny.
B.C. Hydro doubled the flows over the falls to 85 cubic metres per second.
"This is being done to proactively control the reservoir level and for flood risk management," said B.C. Hydro's Stephen Watson.
The spill is expected to last until Nov. 8.
