Tag: Chesapeake Bay
Goodnight, Irene! What a Mess!
Posted October 7th, 2011
Pay attention, folks. We are trashing the world and hurricanes and the ensuing floods are throwing it back at us. Making a wreck of our world is not like making a wreck of our childhood bedrooms—Mother Nature, unlike our own mothers, cannot pick up the garbage we strew and municipal, county, state and federal services…
Saturday, 2 March 2011
Posted March 12th, 2011
The most recent deluge and its run-off have charged the Susquehanna River and the fearsome weight of the water is muscling its way to the Chesapeake Bay. Flood stage is 23.5 feet in these parts. This morning, the river reached 27.7 feet and it is expected to crest at something over 28 feet. Conowingo Dam…
