it wasn't the boots as much as the jeans. the boots were nice and clean from wading through streams and going thru standing water once i got into the little valley the falls are in. but i'm like a kid playing in puddles so it was fun. ;-) we really didn't get anything of what they were saying. no high winds, no real flooding, no damage. thank goodness. this stupid place shuts down when someone spits on the roadway...i'd hate to see it in a true emergency. lol