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Crabtreek Creek up around Glenwood Avenue [Lassitmer Mill Area] is flooding today due heavy rain. It’s currently approaching Flood Stage but has already over-topped the banks in some of the lower areas at bridge underpasses, etc. Beware out there today, as more rain may be falling throughout the region today. Use the Crabtree Creek links in the left-hand column to access more information. Yep. It is true. Some techno-dweebs took over for a short time and slapped a billboard up over the top of the WordPress theme I was using. Punks. For those that have commented here, don’t worry about any security issues. My web host assures me that it wasn’t that kind of attack, just more a nuisance. Please bear with me while I run through the archived database back-ups and get the original theme/PHP stuff back online. Besides! It’s Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. Get outside with your cameras! Snoop around in the rocks! Cool off while recording stream velocities and estimating stream discharge! Test the compressibility of beach sands under the weight of a Martini glass! Have fun! I had never heard of Conquina Rocks until I took an impromptu visit to the Outer Banks of North Carolina last week. These rocks are very important to the community of Kure Beach. Kure is pronounced “Keer-Eee”. I’m going to delve into Coquina Rocks a little more as well as some other coastal processes sometime this week… hopefully. There’s a lot going on but with any luck, this rather cool photograph will suffice for now.
Digital photography is like numerical computer modeling: It’s all one giant sensitivity analysis. There were a couple of small bug fixes that I just took care of on the page. I say small. However, stuff like no spaces after commas stand out to my eyes like blaze orange against lime green. Any way, it should be sorted now. I found some weird Raleigh geology yesterday afternoon that I’ll have to do a little looking into. Before that though, I wanted to give a big thanks to the Photography Committee of the 15th Annual Komen NC Triangle Race for the Cure. The event was held on the beautiful campus of Meredith College and in the surrounding neighborhood along Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday June 11, 2011. The early stormy-looking clouds from the previous evening gave way to the typical sunny, warm North Carolina day. I was invited to participate as a volunteer photographer. Pretty cool considering I didn’t think I was necessarily at this point in my amateur skill level. It was definitely a new and interesting type of shooting… similar to a parade but a lot faster in pace. I learned a lot. What was I doing here? was all I kept asking myself once I realized that this was a big style deal, and it probably ranked up there with a professional-tier event. My duties were two-fold. I was to gather images on a free-roaming basis of each of the three 5 kilometer [5K] races, of which there were 25,000 people running or walking in . . . → Read More: Komen Race for the Cure Photographs A change in the geospatial location of a facies does not necessarily impose adverse changes in the biota, environment, or geologic composition of the facies. We took some damage here across central North Carolina today. A super cell tornado formed over Sanford, North Carolina and traveled north-northeast across the heart of downtown Raleigh. The damage was pretty widespread and moderate to heavy in some places. But all is good here. More of an update tomorrow if I can get access to all the roads and areas closed off. I didn’t really see anything extraordinary about it. Should I write home? I suppose after all, it was a nice North Carolina evening after a great couple of days of super warm weather! The Boylan Street Bridge was a zoo with people and cameras, so I decided to go to a spot a little off the beaten path. This isn’t a spectacular photograph but I put the Archdale Building in there for reference. That’s where many of the NC Geologic and Soil Survey folks live Monday through Friday. Enjoy. It required a little post-processing work but the green lights against the Archdale Building look cool with the orange. Well it’s probably going to get a little worse before it gets better in Japan. I’m hoping for a quick stabilization of infrastructure and utilities [mainly the nuclear power plants], and a speedy recovery. Quite a sight to behold but more on that later. For those that recognize Daylight Savings Time, remember to “spring ahead” overnight tonight and set your clocks forward one hour. Also, take this time to check/replace the batteries in your smoke alarms, test them, and check the functionality of any other household monitoring devices such as carbon monoxide detectors. |
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