On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:05:34 -0400, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reminants of Hurricane Francis have been visiting this Mountain college > town. Well into three days of rain, it is flooding a bit here and there. > > Bamboo Road past the airport is flooded 3+ feet above the bridge (1/4 mile from > me). Which is enough to put 1/2 foot over the runway. That is one way into town > from my apartment that is closed. > > Deerfield Road is flooded at the new bridges (still wonder why they did not > raise the road 4 feet or so when they put them in). There are 3-4 cars abandoned > in the water there. The golf course there is also under water. That is the > second way from my apartment that is closed. > > Over the shoulder of a mountain via Wilson Ridge Road to the other end of Bamboo > Road and US-421 is still open, but the water is with in 18 inchs of flooding > Bamboo Road there. On the other side of the river the road is about 1/2 the > hight of a quad cab Chevy four wheel drive truck under water. Since there is one > abandoned there it was easy to tell that. If that route is closed my area of the > county will be isolated. > > The weather guy up here says this should taper off tonight. I hope he is correct > otherwise I will not make a couple of appointments I have tomorrow. > > Photos tomorrow or the day after (Wal-Mart is on the other side of those > bridges). Trench coats and fedoras are still the photographers friend. The ME > Super is drying on the kitchen table. Sometimes even I use a UV filter (GRIN). >
Last time I heard something about you out in a rainstorm photographing airplanes, you had a little "event", did you not? Ah, the lure of photography!! Seriously, Tom, I assume from your post that although the environs are now nicely soaked and partially submerged, you and your stuff is safe and dry? cheers, frank -- "It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby." -Eliott Erwitt
