Wow, how underwater are you? The rain just keeps coming down here in central St. Johns and I'm hearing horror story's from Jacksonville. Is it just the usual places or are we finding whole new flood zones? San Marco? If this keeps up where I'm at, 6 Mile Creek will be over it's banks, so I'm going to home depot to find an 'ark kit.'
OCKLAWAHA
So, how many degrees of arc are you building? :-)
Stopped at School 4 today to change the numbers on the physical street address to the building. Chelsea Street was under water from Hughes Automotive to Peninsular Place.. That was before the Afternoon deluge :o
On Saturdays effort , please include on your to bring list: A rowboat and pontoons.
Quote from: Charles Hunter on June 07, 2012, 07:20:29 PM
So, how many degrees of arc are you building? :-)
Wicked!! :)
San Marco is pretty flooded. There's a lake forming right before you get to San Marco on the right hand side (driving down Hendricks from Mandarin towards the core).
Quote from: Charles Hunter on June 07, 2012, 07:20:29 PM
So, how many degrees of arc are you building? :-)
Good catch Charles, I think the rain is rusting my brain... ;)
Some guys on the southside today were hoping their Mazda could float for 40 days.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Car-sinks-into-canal-live-on-Action-News/e6xzNkoo1UuFfgAlkBxgzg.cspx (http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Car-sinks-into-canal-live-on-Action-News/e6xzNkoo1UuFfgAlkBxgzg.cspx)
Full 180, complaining when we are on fire and breathing ash, complaining when we have too much rain, well, at least its consistent.
no complaining from me, I love all this rain. Fill those retention ponds!
We've had some real frog stranglers the last few days. Ah well it's much needed.
Quote from: mtraininjax on June 08, 2012, 03:05:58 AM
Full 180, complaining when we are on fire and breathing ash, complaining when we have too much rain, well, at least its consistent.
i don't mind the rain at all, but if we get another 3" I'm setting sail for Jacksonville - ON MY SOFA. My veggie garden looks like it OD'd on the rain drug.
^^Funny Ock!
I planted grass seed.. and its growing , but floating awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :o
Just learned that the rain was not enough! WE STILL HAVE 8 ACTIVE WOODS FIRES! According to the news the rain has not soaked into the soils well enough to extinguish these fires. The soil has been so dry for the last 50 years that the rain isn't showing much effect. Now before you think I'm off my medication, they were obviously talking about peat bogs that are burning. Such fires, much like coal seam fires in are subterranean and almost impossible to stop.
QuoteIt is estimated that Australia's Burning Mountain, the oldest known coal fire, has burned for 6000 years. In Centralia PA. a careless trash fire in the town dump ignited a coal seam that has burned for 47 years. In spite of 40 million dollars in state and federal aid the fire still burns through old coal mines and veins under the town and the surrounding hillsides on several fronts.
QuotePeat has a high carbon content and can burn under low moisture conditions. Once ignited by the presence of a heat source (a wildfire penetrating the subsurface), it smolders. These smoldering fires can burn undetected for very long periods of time (months, years and even centuries) propagating in a creeping fashion through the underground peat layer. Peat fires are emerging as a global threat with significant economic, social and ecological impacts.
In North America, peat fires can occur during severe droughts throughout their occurrence, from boreal forests in Canada to swamps and fens in subtropical southern Florida. Once a fire has burnt through the area, hollows in the peat are burnt out, and hummocks are desiccated but can contribute to Sphagnum recolonization.
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Quote from: Ocklawaha on June 08, 2012, 09:41:08 AM
Quote from: mtraininjax on June 08, 2012, 03:05:58 AM
Full 180, complaining when we are on fire and breathing ash, complaining when we have too much rain, well, at least its consistent.
i don't mind the rain at all, but if we get another 3" I'm setting sail for Jacksonville - ON MY SOFA. My veggie garden looks like it OD'd on the rain drug.
Swing by on your Sofa , Saturday Ock!! Would be great to see you again !
PS... No complaints here , on the rain. I have a heavily wooded area in my back yard with much dead vegetation on the ground, and , until I can get it all cleared , I worry a little less about a lightning strike burning my neighborhood down! :o
Even the frogs are complaining in my backyard...
Quote from: BridgeTroll on June 09, 2012, 10:55:43 AM
Even the frogs are complaining in my backyard...
Have to tell you that those aren't complaints, but froggy love songs! "It's wet! Let's make tadpoles!" ;)
Probably close to 12 inches or easily more in the backyard rain gauge over the past two weeks......typically two or more inches per rainfall episode-I flip the water out of the gauge,the total inches pile up,lost in haze of cigar smoke,coffee and wine..
it's a big back yard- a 450 Foot Per Second bb gun shot horizontally off of the back porch will barely send the projectile outside of Riverside Avondale.
A certified Wildlife Federation Backyard Wildlife Habitat,the frogs scream,seepage springs gush naturally,the water held on the property thanks to planned slowed hydroperiod;the property boundary ditch filled,the waters trickling in to Big Fishweir creek rather than most un-natural gush.
Fishweir Creek,the southwestern boundary of RAP, has been subjected to cleansing.Pulses of Roosevelt Blvd. storm system litter flows past,each wave less and less,the Orgasim subsides.Perhaps pent up demand will usher in another.....
This after decades of River Advocacy- must be how it should be,yes?.......the trash marches to the big river.
From time to time litter lodges at my property,I flaunt the city rule that forbids the throwing of 'anything' in to area waterways,with solemn yet giddy intent,(after all, I reside in a "Best Place",not even a joint city/fed Creek Restoration proposal can directly address the trash ), I launch the trash back to Public Waters with great fanfare ....the litter flung skyward.....yee Haa... high arc,satisfying splash,splat.
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^Well said. It's a garbage flotilla out there. Two of everything.