Walking the dogs...RCF style

 yup --- 4 times in 2014...

twice, less than one week apart


Paps wasn't too happy about that cause it was about $2000 to fix the gravel road each time with a bulldozer... you can't get insurance for stuff like that.


it's a flood plain so... it happens, can pretty much count on it every year... sometimes it rolls through without doing much, sometimes it rips up the area pretty bad.

 that bridge doesn't look like much from where I'm standing but, below there are two huge I-beams at least an inch thick... 20-something inches tall and about 15 inches wide, welded and bolted to I think 4 more smaller I-beams --- all sunk deep into massive slabs of concrete. the deck is thick thick hickory wood, bolted to the I-beams. ergo, that sucka aint been damaged once since 1932ish when it was built. about 5 or 6 years ago, a giant tree trunk floated down stream and got wedged into the bridge. I meant to take pictures of it but by time I went back home to get my camera it had free'd itself. DUDE --- you should see the size of the fallen tree that was washed away during one of the floods. musta been at least 70 feet tall, the trunk was at least 40 inches, maybe more. it had fallen earlier in the season and I had made a pretty cool skinny out of it. I went down the where that tree was to find it missing, nowhere in site. I even walked about a mile down stream to find it. couldn't find it. freaky