Monday, August 13, 2007

Floods and site updates

I just ran across a great United States Geological survey of North American flooding. Interesting reading, if you dig this kind of thing. Personally I can look at flowing water for hours.
http://ks.water.usgs.gov/Kansas/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.024-00.html




Here are some other interesting resources on the November 2006 floods which hit the Pacific Northwest.
The Science Behind Mount Rainier's November 2006 Floods



I found some great pictures of the damage to Rainier National Park:

A rare sunny picture of the floodwaters.

Campsite 26 at Ohanapecosh Campground

Damage to Highway 23


Where Sunshine Point Campground used to be


Wood on Ohanapecosh Creek

To get an idea of the scale see if you can spot the picnic table in this logjam.

More Road Damange

Kuntz Creek completely changed it's course.


This Week at The Kayak Cult
Antz Longmon on kayaking in New Zealand

This week's picture and youtube. The theme is carnage!
http://www.kayakcult.com/

1 Comments:

dogscratcher said...

Otter Boy,
You should move some of those older photos and posts over to this blog (or even the magazine), that's some good stuff you have there. The ones here I mean:

http://bryonscruggs.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E155101F4DCB778F!159.entry

August 16, 2007 10:24 PM  

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