My friend Matt sent me a great article today from the Burlington free press. It commemorates the great flood of 1927 that occured 90 years ago on November 4th. The flood was due to heavy fall rains and it almost wiped our small town of Jonesville of the map.
the article is here . Much of the story we know. but many of the pictures I’ve never seen. While there were no pictures of our house, many of the jonesville pictures are from within a couple of hundred meters from our house. Our house was damaged in the flood..If you open any of the walls on the north/eaxt sides of the building you can still see the line of silt which marks the high water line of the flood. Though it’s now 90 years ago, I still can recognize the family names of many neighbors . Cody Bressor was our friend Gary’s dad.. Tom O’neil was our neighbor Marie Bombardiers brother. The worthams still live in town. as do the Connants amd Kenyons.
The flood lead to the creation of the Winooski damn 5 miles up stream from us and the little river damn.. even with thos, we were evacuated from our house by a flood in 1992.. we were pregnant with sam
amazing to think of that sitting here on my nice warm couch
Flew in to Albany last night. The reason I did that is that I’d volunteered to do a science show for several hundred middle and high school kids down there today.. originally we’d planned a vacation around that, but it was not to be. I had an important meeting to cover in Munich on Thusday/Friday .. so I’d driven my gear down to Albany on Wednesday and left from there to go to Munich… then flew back to Albany last nigth and drove the rest of the way down to Poughkeepsie early this mornign,. I got there about 1:30 AM.. got some sleep .. then 8:30 this mornign got to the IBM plant there and set up. It was a great day.. the kids were so excited to be there !
then a greast lucnh with good freinds bruce and jim !
then a long drive home .. with lots of music
speaking of music.. Off to see elephant revival. more tomorrow
ABout 10 hours into my commute.. 2 hours more to go..
Spent the day on the plane trying to get through my email.. still have several hundred emails to go.. but Ive made a dent
I did something different on the flight today.. I actually watched TV !.. I binge watched a show called Westworld.. its a remake of the old yule Brenner show.. I’m sure you know the story
I was fascinated with it.. lots of violence.. but still pretty cool….
somehow I managed to watch 5 hours of that..without noticing. . this is why i don’t watch TV when by myself. !
THen I wateched ‘Lost in Translation’.. one of my favorite moviees.. and onne of the best/worst trasvel moivies ever made..
Nothing i’ve seen captures that sense of work travel displacement as well as that movie
I’ve seen it (no joke) 17 times.. Today i did 18, then watched again in German to make 19..
