It’s been raining on and off for a week and today it has rained all day. It is in fact still raining this evening. The result: lots of mud, lots of deep water, and a post that combines two of my long-running interests: drainage and dead trees.
I knew this could not possibly have been the first time we’ve seen such a scene. And sure enough, five minutes of poking around in my laptop turned up two more images. The first one is clearly very early, possibly even part of the aftermath of the flood of 1911:
(Lots more about the 1911-1912 era attempts to control the flow of water on campus here and here.)
The second, although possibly less muddy somehow seems even more melancholy. It was 1946 and I bet they had to pump all that water out of the hole they dug for the Anderson Building foundation:
Bonus: An old familiar feeling .
