Yes, it's still raining.  The locals have said this is the wettest summer they've seen in twenty years.  It's been raining in Talkeetna for a week and a half straight.  We're going to clean up and try to get out of here today.  For a state much larger than Texas, Alaska has very few roads, main thoroughfares to a  different part of the state.  And there are LOTS of streams and rivers.  I looked on a map to see which bridge may be out and there are dozens of stream crossings between Talkeetna and Denali.  From what we've seen with the local flooding, any of them could cause problems.  

We got out of the Mat-Su Valley with a minimum of road closures.  We saw one lane closed at Willow Creek and several people were watching the bridges.  And it's still raining.  We backtracked where we had just been, past the Musk Ox Farm and overlooks where we got some nice mountain photos (in the  few minutes it wasn't raining).  We were down to one lane as they were cleaning up some mudslide damage, trying to keep the main artery open.  One huge rock fell after the huge truck went by to shovel the debris out of the road and traffic was dodging the rock as best as they could.  It was probably the size of a desk chair!  

We got to Glennallen and found lots of cars and RVs gassing up and in line for the restrooms.  The clerk there said this was the busiest she's been all summer.  People from Fairbanks that have come south to Anchorage can't get back the way they came, they have to drive around the long way to get back.  Add to that people who can't get thru (like us) and have to get out this way.  We saw an Anchorage newspaper and the photo on the front page was one of the bridges that were out (we found out two bridges along the road were damaged and closed).  I think one of the bridges was at Troublesome Creek (aptly named) that washed out.  It was an impressive amount of damage, all four lanes across had fallen!  First reports said the bridge may be out two weeks or more.

We stopped at Tok Junction at a covered picnic area and battled a squirrel for our dinner.  We finally won.  Teeny-tiny squirrel, I guess they don't get very big here.  We drove a little further after dinner and found a dirt road to camp on.   We guessed it was public land, all the signs were down because of construction.  At least we didn't see any "No Trespassing/ Private Property" signs.  

As we crawled into the back of the truck, we found that our truck cap has been leaking.  Not to bad and to be honest, we've never been in this much rain before.  However, my pillow and some clothes were wet and Andrew had a couple of things on his side that were wet.  It's not so bad to keep us from camping, but we'll be using some trash bags tomorrow.