Just think, fifty years ago at this moment there was somebody at Kennedy Space Center saying to themselves, ``Yeah, I definitely secured that Skylab meteoroid shield enough, I should stop worrying about it.'' Meanwhile, today, let's take in some more walking about the flooded rivers of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's parents' town.
The river built right up to the rocky edge; this must be so cool for the kids in those houses, if there are any kids in town anymore.
Looking out onto the Forks; you can see evidence of the river having overflown the rocks from all those muddy leaves on the near side of them.
And here's where the river's still overflowing its rocks, as well as the spot where the game cursor's highlighting the projected placement of a new bit of rock ($4 per segment).
I wonder how much of this was underwater even two days before.
More water flowing past the rocks, underneath one of the pedestrian bridges for the park.
Now that little inflowing bit of water isn't flood; that's always there. I just caught it at a particularly nice bit of reflection.
Trivia: Lightning struck the Skylab 1 launch umbilical tower, near swing arm number eight, at about 1 pm the 9th of May, 1973. No significant problems were detected from the event. Source: Skylab: A Chronology, Roland W Newkirk, Ivan D Ertel, Courtney G Brooks. NASA SP-4011.
Currently Reading: Railroads for Michigan, Graydon M Meints.
