On the Road With DemoTex (Mississippi River flooding)

[DemoTex]

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

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear DemoTex!

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...

[Snoutport]

10. My dear train station....

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)

[aquart]

14. The building hurt me, too.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. On the road!!! Me too!

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.

[DemoTex]

12. I just saw your photo post ..

AWESOME!

[Suich]

3. Has the water crested there or is it still rising?

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

:hi:

[DemoTex]

5. A local V-burg guy told me that it will crest 4' higher in a couple of days

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

[intheflow]

4. "Tell it to Murdoch!"

: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.

[kentuck]

6. Thanks again to our onsight reporter.

DemoTex! Kick and Rec.

[Odin2005]

7. LOL at the FUX idiot. What's with the Aussie 'roo bars?

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. If I may....

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.

[Odin2005]

9. Ah, good point!

[DemoTex]

11. The ARB is a total replacement bumper, not a flimsy "brush guard."

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.

[stevedeshazer]

13. +1

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

[Mimosa]

15. What's the Fox guy's name?

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

[Suich]

16. LOL!

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