Roadrunner physics

Did I ever tell you how I ended up wrapped around a tree branch with kayak over my head?

It happened in a flash on Phoenix’s Salt River, on a day with high water and a strong current. I wasn’t watching what I was doing and suddenly I didn’t have the time or strength to pull away from a large, well-established tree. Normally the tree would be on an unapproachable island in the middle of the channel, but the unusually high water had submerged the island, and the tree’s bottom branches were only a few feet above the river.