Surf's Up
07/28/2006 11:03 PM
Submitted for Lens Day challenge "Shallow".
This was my back yard yesterday afternoon. It got worse later (after dark when I couldn’t take any more pictures). The ivy bed and all of the grass shown in the photo was totally submerged by 10 PM, as were the bottom few inches of the shed’s front door.
I was lucky—no flooding inside the house. Some of my neighbors were not so lucky. At least one had their basement flood all the way to the ceiling, and spent most of today running a pump to drain it. Several houses have big dumpsters out front today, full of furniture and so forth.
Look at the area to the left of the shed, and you’ll see Kellogg Creek, which is one of the main routes of water drainage around here. It is normally not visible from this angle, as it runs in a bed several feet deep. But it flooded its banks, and that’s where all of this water came from.
Pear blossom
04/20/2006 01:51 PM
Cozy
04/09/2006 02:56 AM
Submitted for Lens Day challenge "Furry".
Uninvited bookmark
04/01/2006 03:54 AM
Parliament... no, really this time
03/23/2006 06:09 AM
Submitted for Lens Day challenge "Government".
The Parliament building in Vienna, Austria.