Record water levels are now being recorded. And here are a couple of aerial views from the local newspaper, the Union-Bulletin, and its chief shooter, Greg Lehman.
We are high and dry here. But things were different before US Corps of Engineers work on Mill Creek, and Bennington Lake overflow control mechanisms and scenarios were developed. Here is a 1931 photograph of flooding on Birch Street, a route I often take on my daily walk to the downtown workspace.
Most rainfall and highest flood threats in 26 years …
Take a look downtown:
Skies were so full that a wide lens couldn’t even capture them in one sweep, even at distance. Here are some views over about three minutes at Mill Creek. Hundreds more on the water below.
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A rafter of wild turkeys interrupts traffic today on Dalles Military Road in Walla Walla.
And the weather people say this:
July is the warmest month in Walla Walla, Washington, with an average high-temperature of 89.6°F (32°C) and an average low–temperature of 61.2°F (16.2°C).
I was so astonished by the reading that I stepped outside for a confirmation, and, yes, it was warm and windy — only two degrees away from the average July low.
Walking to the track and park:
Today’s trees, etc.:
Exercising/exorcising the beast:
Ivi departs …
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Clouds have been a big deal for me ever since early childhood, and were the subject of some of my earliest photos. So when the New York Times recently published a photo article on “Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds“, a piece recognizing the Cloud Appreciation Society, I asked some of my photographer friends with whom I regularly correspond to show us an example of their own cloud pieces. And they did, as shown on this HHR page.
Learn more about the Cloud Appreciation Society here and here.
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