On the Road With DemoTex (Mississippi River flooding)

I'm on my way to Oregon for fire season. I spent last night in Vicksburg, on the east bank (high bank) of the flooding Mississippi. I took these snapshots early this morning. I'm posting this from my hotel in Wichita Falls, Texas.


Our favorite news network was on the scene early. Actually, the MSNBC/Weather Channel truck was better positioned a mile or two down river.


Auto-focus was inadvertently "off", but the FOX NEWS famous man (practicing his lines) hated me taking his photo. I got closer and closer with my Canon 5D-MK2 and he started yelling. I told him to tell it to Murdoch, not to me.


Famous Fox guy again


The old train station


Lower Washington Street (route 61?), just below Rusty's Riverfront Grill


I saw lots of dead and live snakes


My bodacious Tacoma with an Australian ARB bumper kit

Ah, great shots...but then, what else do we expect from you?

The dead snake is so sad...and I don't like snakes...

Loved the Fox newsman pics!

And the train station just made me very sad. It looks so vulnerable.

Thanks for sharing these!

Safe travels to you...

I agree Peggy! Very sad. I know there is animal and human misery but I do love architecture. Sad to see a building that was so artistic get damaged.

It is brick and maybe has cement floors. Perhaps they can save it. :0)

Nice truck. That's your new one, I suppose? Did you get your Porsche?

I was in the Paducah area a few weeks ago and the river was way up back then. Some of those folks are in for a long May and June.

Be safe man! Overcast and chilly here today in Portland. I did indeed pass right north of your post the other day, on RTE 20.

AWESOME!

So glad you got a chance to bug a FOX famous dude!

:hi:

That will seriously threaten the levees on the west bank (Louisiana side).

:rofl:





What a hauntingly lovely photo of the train station. Such a beautiful historic building. I know housing needs to come first, but I hope they can save that lovely bit of architectural heritage.

DemoTex! Kick and Rec.

Ever hit a 200 pound bag of wet sand with sticks in it? At 65mph?

That's basically what a deer is.

And where he is going to spend his summer, he is going to need it.

I hit an antelope in 2009, on my way out to the lookout tower. It was a glancing blow: dazed the antelope and scared me. Last year I had about ten close calls with deer, antelope, elk, and a mountain lion. Last thing you want in the wilderness, where I will be living through early October, is a damaged front end (radiator, etc). The small winch (9K) is for downed trees across my only way out from the lookout .. I ain't running a towing service in the Deschutes National Forest!

BTW: ARB stands for Anthony R. Brown, the Australian inventor of this superior bumper.

Oregon is waiting. The good news: It's been a helluva wet spring. The bad news: It's been a helluva wet spring.

I don't recognise him. But I don't watch Fox much. *LOL*

What an idiot he is. You've got a right to photograph anybody on a public road! You'd think a news critter would know that. Good catch of his bald spot! :LOL

I just saw the FOX dude on my tee-vee! His name is Dan Springer and he's still in Vicksburg.