floods and other
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jazzfishLast-minute tab closing before I have to get on a plane.
There's been some flooding (before and after shot[1]) in the Mississippi River the last couple of weeks. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground's Wunderblog talks about some potential consequences (thankfully averted). That post led me to John McPhee's 24-year-old New Yorker essay The Control of Nature, which is brilliant and brilliantly-written ("In time of thundering flood, the Atchafalaya was used as a safety valve, to relieve a good deal of pressure and help keep New Orleans from ending up in Yucatán."), and as an added bonus explains why the Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with keeping the mighty Miss'ippi in place.
PartiallyClips: Working on Car. I've found PC to be hit or miss lately; this one's definitely a hit.
A Harnessed Death, by Gareth Hanrahan.
Goodbye DC summer, I won't miss you at all.
Goodbye DCians, I'll miss you more than I've been able to say.
[1] As noted in comments, this is actually a before/after of a different disaster that's hitting the Mississippi region. Yeesh.
There's been some flooding (before and after shot[1]) in the Mississippi River the last couple of weeks. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground's Wunderblog talks about some potential consequences (thankfully averted). That post led me to John McPhee's 24-year-old New Yorker essay The Control of Nature, which is brilliant and brilliantly-written ("In time of thundering flood, the Atchafalaya was used as a safety valve, to relieve a good deal of pressure and help keep New Orleans from ending up in Yucatán."), and as an added bonus explains why the Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with keeping the mighty Miss'ippi in place.
PartiallyClips: Working on Car. I've found PC to be hit or miss lately; this one's definitely a hit.
A Harnessed Death, by Gareth Hanrahan.
Goodbye DC summer, I won't miss you at all.
Goodbye DCians, I'll miss you more than I've been able to say.
[1] As noted in comments, this is actually a before/after of a different disaster that's hitting the Mississippi region. Yeesh.
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Date: 2011-05-26 08:56 pm (UTC)