During the Flood of 1995 people were jet-skiing on California St. The golf course in AvilaBeach was completely flooded on both sides of the creek, and became only mud where once was grass. Some people in SLO took their canoe for a spin around the block. With the fire back when (see: Highway 41 Fire) clearing the grass from the grade, and then all the water, there were swaths of mountain with no green but bright orange with poppies.

Laguna Lake had grown to encompass much of the neighborhood between the lake and Los Osos Valley Road.

Some enterprising water enthusiasts brought a jetski to the very large pond that occupied California street between the Highway Patrol office and foothill. The ski would run up and down the street between the houses and the railroad tracks making waves for the people on inner tubes and other floation devices.

A sculpture hangs above the creek behind the mission. While the creek is normally a few inches deep, one can stand below and gaze up 20 feet to look at it. The shape is curvy, aquiline, like scoop cut into blades like fan. When San Luis Obispo floods, the creek which passes under the city (see Sewer Tour) rises and the art cascades in the water. A rare site to see is skate the surface, the way it expands and carves the water. In the Great Flood of 1995, it was ripped down and carried 100 yards downstream.

There were two deaths from the flood. One man in a canyon died when a mud floe filled his house, floor to ceiling. Another person died as they exitted highway 101 at Los Osos Valley Road. SanLuisCreek had undermined the road which at long last collapsed, dumping the car into the raging creek and trapping it against the under road pipe.

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