{"id":1926,"date":"2011-06-09T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/wide-but-shallow-withlacoochee-river-ga-122.html"},"modified":"2011-06-09T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:09:00","slug":"wide-but-shallow-withlacoochee-river-ga-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/wide-but-shallow-withlacoochee-river-ga-122.html","title":{"rendered":"Wide but shallow: Withlacoochee River @ GA 122"},"content":{"rendered":"Well, this looks like a river, right?\nLow, but still pretty wide?\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5815316766\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2291\/5815316766_8f7e868889.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nLook a hundred feet farther downstream:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5814749743\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2717\/5814749743_45011ed390.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nI could jump across that, and if I fell in I wouldn&#8217;t get wet above\nthe knees.\n<p>\nThis is the Withlacoochee River at GA 122:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5815320134\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2092\/5815320134_a730c79ffe.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nYou can&#8217;t even see any water from the end of the bridge.\n<p>\nTo get an idea of how high the water can get at flood:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5815314972\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3084\/5815314972_0125c309cc.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nHere are the pilings from the really old bridge (not the one that the\nnew bridge replaced):\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5815315810\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3109\/5815315810_5d101dafb5.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nThat cross is about seven feet tall:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5814746305\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2494\/5814746305_2058b2f841.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nThe shrine is related to what is unfortunately probably the biggest\nnews story ever about the river at that bridge.\nDean Poling wrote 2 September 2009 in the Valdosta Daily Times,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x46866820\/Body-found-along-the-Withlacoochee\">\nBody found along the Withlacoochee<\/a>.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5815314686\/in\/set-72157626789575773\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3535\/5815314686_305ff739e0.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nLow water at a sad bridge.\n<p>\nTwo years ago <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/skipper-bridge-road-bridge-withlacoochee-river.html\">a 700 year flood.<\/a>\nThis year,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/lowndes-county-is-disaster-area-gov-deal.html\">\na drought so bad the governor declares Lowndes County a disaster area.<\/a>\nDoes that seem like normal climate to you?\n<p>\nSure, some of the flooding is caused by local overdevelopment and sprawl,\nwhich we should do something about, not only to avoid floods,\nbut also to avoid <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/urban-growth-boundary-portland.html\">fiscal ruin or tax increases.<\/a>\nThe drought is harder to explain through local causes alone.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, this looks like a river, right? 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