Years Ago Today
- Thread starter Teegate
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Have you been in that area in the past year? It has changed so much you would not even know the area. I am not sure how I would even get to that oxbow now.
14 years ago today, this cicada was dragged to its death in the woods.
This is the plastic bridge (Ephriams Bridge) 21 years ago this past week.
Inside and outside Brooksbrae 20 years ago this past week. No bright colors except green!
Franklin Parker dedication 19 years ago tomorrow. Franklin Parker is in the blue shirt.
I found my old pictures from the NJPB gallery the other day after we discussed it in another thread. Here are my Brooksbrae pictures from August 2004!
Also found these in my gallery backup - (literal) state of the art GPS from 2004, a Garmin StreetPilot 2620 with full US maps on an internal 2.5gb
IBM MicroDrive, cost me about $1000! Also bought their US Topo and installed part of it. A little smaller than a brick but just as heavy, on a cold morning you had to wait for the microDrive to warm up before it would start spinning!
And here's an amusing old thread to accompany this 2004 screenshot
https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/gps.1004/#post-7468
And here's the same area on my Magellan Meridian Gold handheld GPS, which was later purchased by another member of the site.
IBM MicroDrive, cost me about $1000! Also bought their US Topo and installed part of it. A little smaller than a brick but just as heavy, on a cold morning you had to wait for the microDrive to warm up before it would start spinning!
And here's an amusing old thread to accompany this 2004 screenshot
https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/gps.1004/#post-7468
And here's the same area on my Magellan Meridian Gold handheld GPS, which was later purchased by another member of the site.
20 years ago this evening, over 13 inches of torrential rain fell on parts of Burlington County, in some places at a rate of more than 3 inches per hour. This led to a "100-year" flood event.
Along the Rancocas Creek and Batsto River basins, 28 dams were damaged and 17 were completely destroyed, adding further to the flooding and emptying many man-made lakes in the area. There was about $80 million in damage and President Bush declared Burlington and Camden counties disaster areas.
Some photos from the following few days around Medford.
Along the Rancocas Creek and Batsto River basins, 28 dams were damaged and 17 were completely destroyed, adding further to the flooding and emptying many man-made lakes in the area. There was about $80 million in damage and President Bush declared Burlington and Camden counties disaster areas.
Some photos from the following few days around Medford.
I've always found it interesting that, in a place like Medford, when the lake one lives on is full, it's a paradise to them. "Oh, the view!" But when the lake is drained, it's a stark world, shoddy and repelling. So, there is an illusion going on. But I'm not really making fun of them, I'd feel the same way. I'm just interested in how we as humans love seeing a body of water. I wonder why. What's behind that?
My buddy was a Medford Lakes police officer at the time. He was driving a brand new Expedition the night the dams blew. He was by Flanagans gas station when the dam gave way behind the Settlers Inn. He saw this wall of water coming straight for him like an "Indian Jones" movie. He shifted into reverse peeled wheels and narrowly escaped.
I remember it well! Had just moved from one of the old log cabins in Medford Lakes to a home on Atsion Road in Medford. I was lucky, no real damage beyond a wet carpet around the basement door where some water seeped in. But didn't have to go far to see the effects of the flood. I remember watching radar (there was a Comcast cable channel that just showed radar 24/7 back then) and that storm just parked itself over the Medford area and didn't move.
One thing made a big impression on me following that storm. Out in the woods, the damage was pretty minimal. But as soon as you went in to an area that was developed and paved, it was a real mess. Nature has its own way of dealing with these events, but when man messes with it, then the trouble begins.
One thing made a big impression on me following that storm. Out in the woods, the damage was pretty minimal. But as soon as you went in to an area that was developed and paved, it was a real mess. Nature has its own way of dealing with these events, but when man messes with it, then the trouble begins.
The Batona RR Bridge high water, 7/13/2004.
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Batsto flood
Well it rained last noght in Tabernacle. The TV said 13.2 inches. We're dry because we're on a hill, but when I took a ride I saw where the water went. We first tried to get to the Carranza Memorial by Carranza Rd, but the bridge at the Thunking Mill was flooded over deep. We tried to get...
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