It could be a spring of sandbags and riprap along the upper Fraser River.
A high snowpack has prompted the B.C. River Forecast Centre to predict runoff will reach 123 per cent of normal at Shelley by July.
The prediction comes as snowpack for this winter has risen to 149 per cent of normal in the Upper Fraser basin and 168 per cent of normal in the Nechako basin, according to centre bulletin, issued Feb. 8.
Those figures are similar to the ones seen in February 2007, the centre noted.
Massive flooding followed that spring, forcing three homes in Miworth to be moved off their foundations and further away from the riverbank.
Riprap was installed at Shelley and volunteers in Vanderhoof spent part of their Canada Day long weekend piling up standbags.
And if that wasn't enough, there was still enough water left over for a now infamous ice jam to grip the Nechako and Fraser Rivers at Prince George starting in December 2007 and sparking a 64-day state of emergency.
However, the centre is not ready to place all its chips on the bet.
"While snow pack is one important factor in determining seasonal flood risk, whether or not major flooding occurs is largely dependent on the weather during the snow-melt season in May and June," the centre said in the bulletin.
