nothing encourages respect
for simple rain,
like living in a floodplain.
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Nov 23
Dec 01
“River, stay away from my door” - Fiona Apple
May 07
vans & buttercups - one of these things like the floodwaters
May 06
imagine that you’re Noah’s youngest child…
imagine you love your modest home and the simple quiet life you have there. every afternoon playing in your yard makes you smile, every dinner by the hearth nourishes your soul, every night cozy in your little bed is safe. imagine you have no love of adventure and hate this whole “Ark” plan. your older siblings won’t play with you today, so busy are they sawing timbers. Mother is overwhelmed preserving every scrap of food in the cellar. and Dad? don’t even talk to me about Dad. Lord knows, these days he’s got no time for you. (he’s too busy talking to “The Lord”.) and the plan? what’s the plan? 40+ days adrift on Waterworld in a rudderless ship full of copulating animals and manure, scanning the horizon for pirates?
can you be a child, for just a minute, and imagine those feelings?
this is how I feel about yet another day of rain.
May 05
lumber in the treetop - this is the best measure i saw, today, of yesterday’s flooding. (A) 24 hours after it crested, the West Fork is about 3 feet above it’s normally high spring level. (B) this is a piece of landscaping lumber. yesterday morning it was in our herb garden. today it is at rest in this tree, 12+ feet above the river. (C) the road surface is about 3 feet higher (out of frame to the left). 24 hours earlier the road was underwater.
After the Flood
photographed 24 hours after the West Fork crested at Hearth Hill, for comparison. if you aren’t intimately familiar with the bottomland here, you really must read my descriptions in this photo set to understand what you’re seeing.
May 04
a short photo chronology of today’s flood at Hearth Hill
(to read my descriptions and explanations, see this photo set on Flickr)
today’s view from the kitchen window (photo)
4 May 2009, 4:06pm
looking out of the Log House at Hearth Hill
(from mobile phone)
today’s view from the kitchen window (video)
4 May 2009, 4:06pm
looking out of the Log House at Hearth Hill
(from mobile phone)
imagine sticking your head out my kitchen window looking straight down (where my backyard ought to be), then tilting your head up, then bringing your head back inside, and taking a step back. that’s what you see here.
the cellar begins to flood (exterior)
4 May 2009, 11:46am
behind the Log House at Hearth Hill
(from mobile phone)
the cellar begins to flood (interior)
4 May 2009, 11:43am
inside the cellar of the Log House at Hearth Hill
(from mobile phone)
