Floodestate, and a sign for LRRD.

Mar 26, 2008

Flooding in the Midwest has been serious. This is just down the road from my house, here shown in this afternoon’s pouring rain. Imagine being in the subprime meltdown and underwater. Lots of news at LRRD. We’re hard at work on Em4 design and production....

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Grandma trumps the flood.

Mar 23, 2008

I ran around southern Illinois being a laser leveling Boy Scout helping my neighbors by tying the Big Muddy River gage readings from the USGS and NOAA to flood elevations at their homes and on low spots in our roads. If the Big Muddy had risen as predicted, Kate and I...

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What floods around goes around.

Mar 21, 2008

Looks like the Meramec River will hit the flood of record in St. Louis tomorrow. These guys, who build our Emriver boxes, sit on the fringe of the Meramec’s floodplain there. Consider the irony of our great friends and suppliers of river model parts going...

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Water (and Emriver orders) flood Carbondale.

Mar 19, 2008

Flooding all over. From west Texas to New York. Lots of trouble in southern Illinois. Pumps and levees failed in Harrisburg, IL. If you’re into hydrology, check out the stage plots and rainfall on my favorite Missouri Ozark river. Jesse took this photo as he and...

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Carbondale winter roller coster.

Feb 14, 2008

Here’s a view out our window at home across the frozen pond (and past a couple of tropical plants). Nice to see the sun after a few days of heavy overcast. The other photo is of a pine seedling in the yard. I was finally well enough to go into work a bit today,...

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