And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
That granite country absorbs no water - it all runs right off.
I heard that in the 1800's there was a glacial moraine at the lower end of the valley that tended to back the water up something like this every spring. That made the meadows bigger as the soggy ground kept the trees out. Then, the settlers blasted a hole in it to let the water through, and the valley has been a lot drier since, and the meadows shrunk. This year, there was a spring storm with a lot of warm rain that fell on the snowpack, and between the two we get the flood.
That's impressive, CW. I had to laugh when the cyclists got inundated by the bow wave from the truck!
ReplyDeleteI heard that in the 1800's there was a glacial moraine at the lower end of the valley that tended to back the water up something like this every spring. That made the meadows bigger as the soggy ground kept the trees out. Then, the settlers blasted a hole in it to let the water through, and the valley has been a lot drier since, and the meadows shrunk. This year, there was a spring storm with a lot of warm rain that fell on the snowpack, and between the two we get the flood.
DeleteYosemite, land of industrialized recreation
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