Why did the salmon cross the road?

The Skokomish River near Shelton Washington is flooding again.  These pictures are popular, so I've watermarked them heavily.  I've already sold some rights to a few of these and I hope to sell more.

   Pumpkins float in the flood waters of the Skokomish River next to the 
Skokomish Valley road  near Shelton Washington on Tuesday Nov. 4^th

       Fall chum salmon rest while waiting to cross the Skokomish Valley road onear Shelton

Washington on n Tuesday Nov 4th

Nearly a dozen Chum salmon use a residential drive way gate as a place to rest before

 trying to cross the Skokomish Valley Road near Shelton Washington Nov 4th 2014

  A Chum salmon rests on the fog line after crossing  the Skokomish Valley Road 

near Shelton Washington on Tuesday Nov. 4^th