Originally Posted by terrymorse

Our house is 500 feet from Matadero Creek. Yes, it used to be scary when it was raining hard. But the city did a flood control upgrade with big retaining walls, and now the water never gets up very high. The price we paid was the loss of all the neighborhood toads, as they were no longer able to climb out of the creek. We used to get an invasion of tiny toads every year.