I am on the road today. Most of the morning was spent roaming about the KY, TN, NC and SC border lands; very pretty. There is a town in KY called Berea. Hippy dippy little place with lots of bric a brac stores. Despite its appeal for me to loosen up the upper regions of my wallet it just seemed like a place where a variety of colorful folk had washed up. I wouldn’t be surprised if it produces a pop band someday.
Lovely rivers and KY has some great parks. One weird town we saw had gates that would swing across a US highway. Big metal gates that looked like flood gates. I am not sure what that was about but it was impressive.
When the morning is over tomorrow I should be in Hilton Head. More from there.
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So WHY are you on the road? Gonna see Gary Brasseur at Hilton Head? How 'bout Hurricane Fay? You DO pick the best time to bail.
Hope you have a great time. And, if I recall correctly, there's a college in Berea, KY, where all students MUST be employed to pay their tuition, etc., and where late great Circuit Court Judge Sam Street Hughes (he was also a former mayor of Lansing.......both LONG before your time) matriculated.
Fly low and slow.
JDB
Yeah, there are flood gates in Pineville, KY to keep the river from flooding the town, which has happened several times in the past. They go right across the main road in at least a couple places.
http://www.orn.usace.army.mil/history/dates_in_history.htm
January 1, 1946 - Catastrophic flooding at Pineville, Ky, leads to the construction of a system of levees and floodwalls.
April 1977 - Record flooding inundates Upper Cumberland region. Levee at Pineville, Ky., is overtopped as is the construction cofferdam at Martins Fork. Valiant flood fighting effort by National Guard, townspeople and Corps employees saves Barbourville, Ky., from flooding.
October 1983 - Beginning of Pineville, Kentucky, Section 202 flood protection project.
http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/App_coal/apcl_2a.html
Pineville has spent a small fortune on a new flood wall to protect the city from the way-to-often swollen Cumberland River. Pineville has been washed away several times since I can remember and this flood wall is a god send.
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