100 Posts in 100 Days: Day 27
Jan. 27th, 2012 05:15 pmI was up somewhat late last night, which is how I know: It was 61 degrees at 2:30 AM. In West Virginia. In a mountainous area. On January 27.
This is the weirdest winter I can ever remember.
We also got a lot of rain, the creeks were full up with swirling brown water. My neighbor took me grocery shopping, and we were looking at a hill near a fairly new plaza that's about to collapse. Part of it already collapsed and they had to get in and fix it, and now another area is going. This is most likely due to poor engineering rather than any act of Mother Nature.
It's a weird thing here. You hear about mudslides in California, and we do get the occasional landslide, but the soil here is heavy clay. Generally, that holds things together, especially when there are trees and grass etc to protect against erosion.
Mike(my neighbor) said that usually, unless it's an old coal mine site, the only time you get landslides here is when there has been a period of dry weather severe enough to really dry out the clay followed by very heavy rain. You do have to be careful when building on a hillside, though, because if you don't shore up your basement walls adequately, they CAN and do crack and shift.
That's my interesting fact for the day. Still waiting on story betas.
This is the weirdest winter I can ever remember.
We also got a lot of rain, the creeks were full up with swirling brown water. My neighbor took me grocery shopping, and we were looking at a hill near a fairly new plaza that's about to collapse. Part of it already collapsed and they had to get in and fix it, and now another area is going. This is most likely due to poor engineering rather than any act of Mother Nature.
It's a weird thing here. You hear about mudslides in California, and we do get the occasional landslide, but the soil here is heavy clay. Generally, that holds things together, especially when there are trees and grass etc to protect against erosion.
Mike(my neighbor) said that usually, unless it's an old coal mine site, the only time you get landslides here is when there has been a period of dry weather severe enough to really dry out the clay followed by very heavy rain. You do have to be careful when building on a hillside, though, because if you don't shore up your basement walls adequately, they CAN and do crack and shift.
That's my interesting fact for the day. Still waiting on story betas.