Bad Data or is there a hole in the Russian.

Wall of water came down the Russian today but where did all the water go 5K cfs in Hopland and 1/2 as much in H-Town??????
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/river/russianStages.html

I'm trying to think like a river here, and I'm no hydrologist...  I think significant volume would be lost just to filling in the river channel itself, as the sudden extreme runoff spreads out across the entire channel all the way downstream. 

Yesterday I hung out above Fernbridge on the Eel.  The flows were nice, and the muddy water was gradually arriving all morning, but the flows yesterday were absolutely nill compared to today - it's bank to bank today.  Yesterday I'd seen that more than 8" of rain fell at Leggett in 24 hours ending Sunday morning.  I'll bet the flow records may have recorded something similar for the Eel, but does that mean that it eventually increased at Healdsburg and the earlier spike recorded wasn't even correlated to the big water up at Hopland?

Good question.