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The Long View (Con’t)
The third meeting about flooding was this evening, and there is a plan. (ed: photo top center)
The plan is to keep the water moving through town and get out of the way. Alerts, warnings, communication, and evacuation methods are in place. Work is being done on culverts, bridges, dikes, water channels, etc. There are the sandbags. There is an early-warning mechanism in the
wouldn’t affect Kingston. It could come down Middle Percha and put both Kingston and Hillsboro at risk. Or just Hillsboro. Or it could come down North Percha. It could be a big, fast storm, or a micro-burst, or a big, slow storm. It will be difficult to be alert, to be ready. But it helps to see for yourself where those clouds are forming and where those bands of rain are coming down. It may help to smell the air. And it will help to listen.
Meanwhile, we have had rain. The burnt trees are dropping their needles. The needles become mulch, seeds rest under them, then open. It rains as I write tonight. (ed: photo top right)
The carbon in this tree has been a part lot of things, and now some will subside into the ground to nourish new life, while some will be on its way in water, to the Rio Grande and beyond. Much ascended into the atmosphere, and is still drifting around up there.
Life goes on here in geologic time.
Melvin Guerro, on the Magdalena hotshot crew, drew this in Spike Camp, on cardboard. It’s about 12” x 24”. Call if you would like to commission his work: 575-854-2933.
Sometimes the fire and floods brought unsuspected results
August 26, 2013 - A Cache of Weapons
A post and photographs by Bob Barnes of Hillsboro
This morning several of us took a stroll up Middle Percha west of Kingston to look at the changes that the fire and floods have brought to the area.
THE BLACK RANGE RAG - WWW.BLACKRANGE.ORG
Middle Percha made by Tom Lander and Jack Stewart, which is a float that will sound an alarm if the water reaches four feet. (But that’s only the Middle Percha.) Residents will keep an eye on weather.gov, and there will be phone calls between Kingston and Hillsboro about rain. A flood can come so suddenly. It could come down South Percha, and Kingston wouldn’t know about it. And it
iN MEMORY OF THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS
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