I am like you, and was a "creek" kid growing up. 3/4 of my children also love the creek.
The bridge at the county road is 10' above the normal creek level. We had two floods last spring that went over the bridge. The second went over the signs on the bridge - that are 6' tall.
I had several burn piles of invasive trees that I had cleared washed away by the flood.
The good news is that the floods blew out a huge pool in the creek that was about 5' deep and 150' long. When the waters went down it was absolutely full of fish. The kids had a great time, and we even caught 30" gar using only frayed out nylon rope as the lure.
