The flooding in Texas has been absolutely gut-wrenching, with over 100 dead (including 27 children/counselors from a summer camp). To be fair, that flooding has been nothing short of catastrophic...it hurts my heart just to think about it.
Durham is flooding right now as well, and it's eerie to watch the news from there.
We used to live at the red tag on the following map:
We used to live at the red tag on the following map:
Our neighbourhood was called Eno Trace, and you can kind of see where the river...traces...Lazyriver Drive, the main road in our neighbourhood. We used to hike through the woods to get to River Forest Park (which my kids called the "Purple Slide Park"). There wasn't a great place to cross the river, but Old Farm Road Park is clearly right there as well (we would sometimes have soccer games there), just off Rippling Stream Road. Because of the river, though, we'd have to take Infinity down to Roxboro Road and then enter that neighbourhood.
Well, Rippling Stream Road had to be evacuated by boat in the recent flooding!
And the little "Bluffs on the Eno" neighbourhood (the little "Bluffs Lane" loop across from our Eno Trace Neighbourhood Pool) had some rather significant flooding as well. Benjamin, Zoë and I took a walk to check out their flooding back in 2017. This year it was worse.
Here are a few pictures that a friend posted of her son and husband out on their street:
...until the waters subsided.
Here's a picture of the inside of my friend's kids' school:
And here's a picture of the Hurricane Fran sign that we would hike to sometimes:
Or perhaps it was a different sign that we'd hike to sometimes. Either way, this flooding exceeded the flooding caused by Hurricane Fran in 1996.
A picture from 2012 |
It's been interesting to see the trickle of news coming out of the Durham, compared to the torrent of news coming out of Texas. And that's fair because...obviously the flooding in Texas was much worse. But it feels strange knowing how close all those flooded places are to where we were living.
Water is so powerful!
I recently also saw a video of a flash flood through Sulphur Creek, which has nothing to do with Durham or Texas...but is interesting nonetheless. We got to see the headwall come through during a flash flood in 2008...and then hiked through the "ucky-mucky augie" the next day.
Anyway...I've just been thinking a lot about water recently. And about how maybe firing so many meteorologists wasn't a great idea. And about how maybe we should be thinking about climate change and what we can do to avoid these increasingly catastrophic storms (and fires and so forth). Just...a thought...
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