A River Runs Through It...
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:05AM Blankets Creek that is. I did a recon mission yesterday afternoon to asses damage from the flooding rains. This was right after the Flash Flood Warning for Cherokee County went out. There is definitely going to be clean up involved. Numerous trees are uprooted from the soggy soil conditions and have fallen blocking trails. Reverse grads in trails are clogged with 3 inches of silt...and the worst is yet to come. No one can predict how much Allatoona is going to crest. We might be shut for a while with trails segments on South Loop, VMT and Mosquito Bite underwater.
Stay tuned to the website for more details. Here are randoms pics/videos from the floods:
Steel Bridge over Blankets
Look at how far the driftwood is up on the railings. The bridge was submerged to this level!
Video
Blankets Creek Flood - Steel Bridge from jay wilkes on Vimeo.
More Photos here in our Photo Gallery:
http://www.sorbawoodstock.org/photos/blankets-creek-floods-sept-2009/
Reader Comments (5)
Jay, thanks for your recon work. I was hoping someone had ventured out for some footage. That's amazing. I am really wondering how those new switchbacks are going to fare through all this mess. They didn't have much time to get packed in, so I hope they don't get completely washed out!
That first photo is unreal, makes me wonder how you even got that far down the trail to take that.
In the second photo, notice how far the driftwood is up on the railings. Now go back to the first photo with the bridge underwater and try to imagine the water level 2 ft higher than in the picture. The zen garden next to the bridge was underwater by 2 ft!!!
holy crap
Jay, did we get the trail counters (i.e stats) pulled out? Or are they still buried in the ground at the trail heads? Dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - I hope so!