Joe and Celia Beetus talk about potlatch, the flood that occurred in Hughes, rain in the Brooks Range swelling the rivers, the Koyukuk River, contacting Allakaket and Bettles for river conditions, moving possessions to higher locations, helicopters transporting people to Fairbanks, worrying about his trapping cabin, the 1937 flood after break up, preparing for high water, a flood in 1898, Oscar Nictune, a flood on the Alatna River, flood damage, flu epidemic in 1925 along the Yukon and Tanana Rivers, Johnny Oldman, Frank Simon, trapping, and making good choices in life.