A Rainy Day...And Then Some

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If you drive around Louisville you'll come to some signs that indicate the "high water mark" for the 1937 Flood. There's one about two miles or so from my house, and I don't live anywhere near a body of water! (In fact, I'm not eligible for flood insurance, that's how "dry" my part of town is!) As a river town, we've had floods. In fact, it's almost an annual occurrence. Inevitably the 3rd Street ramp from I-64 west is going to close at least one lane because water from the river is over it, the Great Lawn at Waterfront Park will be under water and debris, and the flood walls will be prepared, if not installed. If you live in an area with (a) a big body of water and (b) spring rains, you know the drill. While we didn't get anything near historic levels of rain over the weekend, we still got plenty. PLUS, we were dealing with the melting from the snow and ice the previous two weeks. As a result, we're having some problems. It's like that line in Casablanca, "Round up the usual suspects." The problems are in the "usual" places. The photo you see here is from an area I've featured before, Beargrass Creek. It meanders near Seneca Park and into Cherokee Park in this part of the creek. And, if you remember the photos, you know it doesn't normally look ANYTHING like this. Whitecaps on a drainage creek???? Yep. And I've seen smaller waves in the ocean. Things are getting better in the creeks, but that means the river is rising (because all that water has to go somewhere). It's amazing how fast it can rise....and disappear. All part of the after-effects of a rainy day -- and then some -- in a river city.