Nice new swimming and kayaking facility they've built, there. Concession stand probably should be set back a little further from the course, though.

Ty Cobb Stadium. Artificial surface because it is so close to the river. Lets see what it looks like in a week.

I learned today that Knoebels Amusment Park in Elysburg, PA is flooded.

Water parks are cool too. :lol:

It would appear that some God's creatures don't mind.;)

I drove back through Riverview and it was fine. Turns out the ground floor of all those apartments is all garages. So they figured on this.

That was a smart move, I wonder if the Township required it or they were thinking ahead? :confused:

The ducks and geese were swimming merrily around but what about the other critters?

Is that a groundhog?

Not anymore...

Thinking ahead about flood plains - in many areas building is not allowed unless the structures can survive flooding without too much damage. I bought a house that had been severely flooded after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The Redevelopment Authority required that during the renovation all electrical boxes, furnaces, etc., had to be located above the 100 year flood level. New buildings were built with garages on the first floors just as in the Riverview Apts., I think in part because they could not get flood insurance unless they did so. I have stayed in a new Hyatt Hotel in Covington KY which has the lobby on the second floor, and 2 sets of elevators. You take one from the ground floor to the lobby and a second one from the lobby to the floors above. Inconvenient to do with luggage, but flood proof.

Yes. :(

I don't get it. Can't the water come up one elevator shaft, spread across the lobby floor, then go up the other elevator shaft?

Only if it can press the buttons.

True. The lobby is on the second floor because it is well above the 100 year flood level. The elevators to upper floors, and, more importantly, the wiring and mechanisms that run them, are also above that level. The elevators from the ground floor to the lobby have separate wiring, etc.

I Forgot to mention that Covington is on the Ohio River whch can have some fierce floods. The Ky side of the river is mostly flood plain. Newport, east of Covington but still on the Ohio River, has large, impressive levees to protect it.

Levees, by the way, are a temporary solution. While they keep the river out of the flood plain, the river tends to build up silt deposits on its bed instead of depositing the silt on the flood plain where it used to pre-levee. Gradually the river bed gets higher so that the levees are less effective. Hence, dredging is needed to remove the silt from the river bed. When we mess around with the forces of nature, we have to be really careful...