riverine – Page 2 – Black and White

ecoman

corrotoman — Ecoman visited Slabtown this weekend. People were nervous. Recycling everything, pretending to plant trees, bicycling…

Robinson Rapidan Rappahannock

twin mountains — Twin Mountains Road. Reminds me of the Stari Grad plain

What native people lived on the Rapidan in Madison County?

fish hawk

eye on the threat — Worldwide!
Taxonomy and systematics
The osprey was one of the many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, and named as Falco haliaeetus.[2] The genus, Pandion, is the sole member of the family Pandionidae, and used to contain only one species, the osprey (P. haliaetus). The genus Pandion was described by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809.[3][4]
Most taxonomic authorities consider the species cosmopolitan and conspecific. A few authorities split the osprey into two species, the western osprey and the eastern osprey.
The osprey differs in several respects from other diurnal birds of prey. Its toes are of equal length, its tarsi are reticulate, and its talons are rounded, rather than grooved. The osprey and owls are the only raptors whose outer toe is reversible, allowing them to grasp their prey with two toes in front and two behind. This is particularly helpful when they grab slippery fish.[5] It has always presented something of a riddle to taxonomists, but here it is treated as the sole living member of the family Pandionidae, and the family listed in its traditional place as part of the order Falconiformes.–Wikipedia

right bank home river James

James River between Boshers and Z-dam — Rivers give and take. Transport and divide. Run and run.

Hurricane Camille

TV news touted how many feet the James River was over flood stage at the Westham gauge. People love disaster, particularly when it can be viewed from inside the car. (Is this Charles Fishburne?)

traffic — The citizenry of Richmond head out Route 147, through River Road shopping center, past the Esso, crossing to the southside via the Hugenot Bridge.

Nothing says flood like livestock and houses floating down the river. I didn’t get those pictures this day.

Because the hurricane was expected to quickly dissipate over land, few were prepared for the flash flooding.[32] Arriving in Virginia on the evening of August 19, Camille was no longer a hurricane, but it carried high amounts of moisture and contained sufficient strength and low pressure to pull in additional moisture.

A widespread area of western and central Virginia received over 8 inches (200 mm) of rain from Camille’s remains, leading to significant flooding across the state. A total of 153 people lost their lives from blunt trauma sustained during mountain slides, related to the flash flooding, not drowning.[33] More than 123 of these deaths, including 21 members of one family, the Huffmans, were in Nelson County. Seven victims of the hurricane in Nelson County remain unidentified, as well as one in Albemarle County. [34] Avalanches occurred on hillsides with a slope greater than 35 percent.[33] In Nelson County, the number of deaths amounted to over one percent of the county’s population.[35] The worst of the damage was reported in Massies Mill, Woods Mill, Roseland, Bryant, Tyro, Montebello, Lovingston, Norwood, Rockfish, and along the Davis and Muddy creeks.[33] The James and Tye rivers crested well above flood stage in many areas, including a record high of 41.3 feet (12.6 m) at Columbia. Hurricane Camille caused more than $140 million of damage (1969 dollars) in Virginia.[5][6] Camille was considered one of the worst natural disasters in central Virginia’s recorded history–Wikipedia

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