The Fat of the River

Today, I visited the Clinch River at Speers Ferry and Clinchport in Scott County, VA.  It seems like it's rained for a month... so, as you might expect, it's up... and muddy.

While I was there, the water was at 21 feet high with a discharge of 20,000 cfs (cubic feet per second).  That's a lot of water.  When we go snorkel there, it has to be below 1,100 cfs.  Wow, that really put it in perspective for me.

Anyway, I took the camera and jumped in Maddie the Mazda and off we went.  Roads were closed in three directions, so my adventure was cut short... but an adventure is judged on what you see and do, not by how long you're gone... right?

The road to Copper Creek at Speers Ferry was flooded.  

Clinchport

Swinging bridge at Clinchport.  

Big brown water.

Wonder what the trees are thinking?

Foggy hillside along the way.

North Fork Holston.

Road 627 that parallels the Clinch into Tennessee was flooded, too.  Bummer.

Train trestle in the sky.

If you look closely, you can see they already had one lane of  SR 65 closed.

This is how close the water was to the swinging bridge.  I got there just in time.

Double trestle.

The flag stood out so well in the gloom.

Those are the best of my pictures.  It was raining so I tried not to keep the camera out too long.  I was listening to "The Fat of the Land" on my drive over, so it seemed fitting to name this post in a similar way.

Hope you've enjoyed!  Next time, you can go with me...