{"id":107,"date":"2006-03-28T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-02-12T07:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T12:20:26","slug":"spring-flood-on-the-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Spring Flood on the Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing sometimes how much the river can flood in the springtime. Fortunately, this year I remembered to take some pictures of the difference. I didn&#8217;t manage to catch it quite at the peak (when they were paging people over the public address system at the hospital because the parking lot was flooding out), but I did get within about 2 days, so the water level is pretty high!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pair of shots of the bike path running under the bridge onto campus:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/SpringFloodUWOBridge.jpg' alt='Spring Flood 06 Bridge' width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/SpringFloodoverUWOBridge.jpg' alt='After Spring Flood 06 Bridge' width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a pair of the creek running behind my building (that during hot periods in the summer dries up completely):<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/Springfloodcreek.jpg' alt='Spring Flood 06 Creek' width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/SpringFloodovercreek.jpg' alt='After Spring Flood 06 Creek' width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how fast the water rises once the snow melts and those ice dams are removed, but you can see why they always warn parents not to let their small children play near the creeks and rivers in the early spring. Not only does it flood out some of those paths, but the water moving down the river moves a lot faster, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing sometimes how much the river can flood in the springtime. Fortunately, this year I remembered to take some pictures of the difference. I didn&#8217;t manage to catch it quite at the peak (when they were paging people over the public address system at the hospital because the parking lot was flooding out), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}