Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Meanwhile, back at the....
The same storm that destroyed Greensburg later caused flooding across a wide swath of Kansas. Manhattan was affected, though not disastrously. Some apartments and trailers in the south part of town received two or three feet of water from Wildcat Creek and the Kaw. No permanent destruction, but quite a bit of cleanup for those apts.
I checked for videos to see if anyone I knew was involved. Appears not, but this video from a Topeka station shows some of the damage, and shows Wildcat Creek out of its banks.
What's more, toward the end of the video, I was surprised to see this shot:
Just under the bridge, there it is! The actual Mill, still standing. (It was never a mill, of course; it was always an abutment for an abandoned railroad bridge. But that doesn't affect the Mill where Polistra lives, since this Mill was always a place in the imagination.) ¶ 1:11 PM
I checked for videos to see if anyone I knew was involved. Appears not, but this video from a Topeka station shows some of the damage, and shows Wildcat Creek out of its banks.
What's more, toward the end of the video, I was surprised to see this shot:
Just under the bridge, there it is! The actual Mill, still standing. (It was never a mill, of course; it was always an abutment for an abandoned railroad bridge. But that doesn't affect the Mill where Polistra lives, since this Mill was always a place in the imagination.) ¶ 1:11 PM
