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Sodden, Always

I came back from break today to a drippy, dark, sodden campus. Here’s what the quad looked like this morning from the fifth floor of Fondren:

Pretty messy: but not as bad as this:

That’s from a big rain in 1922, looking west towards Harris Gully. The low slung building where the road ends is the shed I talked about in this post from a while back about things that aren’t here anymore.

That 1922 rain was quite a storm. Here are a couple more images of the aftermath, all looking towards the gully:

I have a long history with that road between the dorms.

Bonus: Not an Italian cypress but dead nonetheless.

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