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Open Air Shelter.
Race and N Carlisle Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania #LetsGuide
A homeless person makes their bed beneath this surreal cabana. It sets the stage with fine nested lights and canned lighting pans the floor below. I catch myself with all of my residential real estate and architectural background; I force myself to take a deep breath and stop. To stop describing the architecture and the architectural beauty that a homeless person has chosen to take refuge in. This is the why I decided to take this photograph; that red blanket got my attention. Everything else was superfluous; and essentially beautiful. That red blanket; those shoes, the summation of COVID-19.
The title of each photo in this series is a translated line from a poem found in the Chapel of Bones. See the full poem in the original language here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Ossos#Poem .
From our tour guide - the Franciscan monks who used the bones of approximately 5000 corpses, built this to send a message to the nobles that in death, no one can tell the difference between the rich and the poor, royal or common.
13th and Race Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania #LetsGuide
I carefully walk down this covered street with a keen awareness of the many homeless people who live and sleep here; borrowed segments have become their urinal, and these people have no fear of the vehicles traversing this passageway which is eerily silent because of Corona Virus, COVID-19 fears.
They blame either the geese or California. My dog would not drink this water but she did go over the bridge. Welcome to Louisville Kentucky, USA, home of the fastest two minutes of sports
Kentucky is one of the few states in the Nation which still employs the antiquated Combined Sewer Overflow System.
The above area is within a stone's throw of the Kroger Distribution Center in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. (2000 Nelson Miller Pkwy, Louisville, KY 40223), Jefferson County and a number of surgical centers including Baptist Eastpoint and Premier Surgery Center.
If I recall correctly (would take time to locate that publication if it still exists) this exemption for Louisville to retain the CSO's was at the request of then Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson (who later went on to become Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and finally Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama White House).
How long has this been going on? Since the 1800's here - and Louisville is still wallowing in it's own quagmire: www.msdlouky.org/aboutmsd/pdfs/msd04ar_med.pdf
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Combined Sewer Systems: Down, Dirty, and Out of Date
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257666/
"CSOs flood waterways with contaminants including microbial pathogens, suspended solids, chemicals, trash, and nutrients that deplete dissolved oxygen. Microbial pathogens and toxics can be present in CSOs at levels that pose risks to human health. CSOs can therefore lead to contamination of drinking water supplies, beaches, and shellfish beds.
The EPA’s 2004 report indicated that the agency has limited information on the extent of human health impacts of CSOs. One health effect the agency can quantify comes from regularly monitored coastal and Great Lakes beaches. Using data from these locations, the EPA estimates about 3,500–5,500 gastrointestinal illnesses each year are caused by CSO and SSO pollution of swimming waters.
According to Rose, current estimates hold that microbial pathogens in U.S. public drinking water supplies sicken hundreds of thousands of people each year, though most of these waterborne illnesses are mild, disappearing after a few days. It’s difficult, moreover, to trace sources of these illnesses. Many outbreaks in the United States go unreported, and in most outbreaks the pathogen is not identified. CSOs may or may not be to blame.
However, several reports and studies, including one from the 22 November 2002 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, demonstrate that there has been an increase in waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States over the past few years. Rose says these community outbreaks are correlated with rainfall as well as associated overflows and leaks in public sewer systems. Sensitive populations—the elderly, the very young, and those with existing health problems—are most vulnerable to waterborne enteric microorganisms. These populations make up about 20% of the U.S. public."
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And today, MSD is digging a $200 Million tunnel under Louisville to store and transport "wastewater". 18 stories underground, 20' in diameter, 4 miles in length, 55 million gallon storage capacity - to be completed in 2020. If works as designed is purported to prevent 439 gallons of sewage and rainwater from combining and entering local waterways as it does now:
www.wdrb.com/story/38884668/himsd-starts-digging-massive-...
According to MSD this is the tunnel route:
There will be six construction staging areas located where the six drop shafts are being built to access the tunnel. These are located at:
11th and Rowan streets, also site of the tunnel and new Pump Station
8th and Washington streets downtown
Franklin and Buchanan streets in the Butchertown area
1198 East Main Street
Lexington Road near Grinstead Drive
East Water Street near North Shelby Street
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Kentucky likes tunnels. www.kentuckybids.com/bid_opportunities/2017/07/14/7912128...
Note the police officers chatting with civilians. This is next to a large shopping center. The area was neither secured or blocked except to go around the Dodge SUV. One cannot stop shopping here in Louisville, Kentucky, USA Now if this were a protest the bullhorns would be out and the area would have been contained immediately. But this is not a protest - this is a real-life scenario where the lives of many civilians and civil servants were endangered with minimal attempt to protect the (shopping) public. The police officers and fire captains might want to set a good example on how to protect themselves by at least wearing a face mask or respirator (if that's legal). The stench of burning paint, rubber and gasoline was quite strong. The front line firefighters here are incredibly brave and skilled.
Cheltenham Wetlands Park was once part of the U.S. Naval Radio Station, Cheltenham, Maryland. It was commissioned in 1939.
“The original antenna fields, comprising creosoted wood telephone poles and metal antenna towers, were located in the acreage surrounding the buildings. All metal antenna poles have been removed from the installation. Some abandoned creosoted wood poles remain in the wooded and swampy sections of the installation.
Established as a radio receiving station before World War II, the installation's mission evolved to administration during the Cold War era.”
They're painting this bridge now a yellow ochre color - it's quite pretty and different than the usual gray or camo green. This is the remaining non-toll bridge into Louisville - I hope it stays that way!
George Rogers Clark Memorial 2nd Street Bridge
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Culture
Locally, the Clark Bridge is known as the Second Street Bridge due to its direct alignment onto Second Street in Louisville. There is a pedestrian sidewalk on each side of the bridge deck. The Clark Bridge was previously the only regional Ohio River bridge open to non-motorized traffic, until the opening of the Indiana side of the nearby Big Four Bridge to pedestrian and bicycle traffic in May 2014.[7][8][9]
Since 1991, the bridge has been used as "ground zero" for the annual Thunder Over Louisville event, when a waterfall of fireworks flows along the entire length of the bridge during the fireworks show. This involves traffic being closed for much of the week. This is criticized as it cuts off both the only non-interstate and, prior to the Big Four Bridge reopening, the only pedestrian route between Louisville and southern Indiana, which can impact local businesses such as bicycle couriers. Future closures of the Clark Bridge will also cut off the only free vehicular crossing of the Ohio in downtown Louisville.
The bridge is featured in a scene from the 1981 movie Stripes in which Bill Murray drives his cab to the middle of the span, gets out of the vehicle and then tosses his keys into the river below.[10]
This water also runs down into the storm sewer.
Watched them dump their grease down there for years.
Town did nothing.
Let alone the railroad.
LaGrange Road, Louisville, KY
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I'm sure there is a reason for this truck to park, idling for at least an hour (it also has a bad oil leak).. Interestingly enough the registration sticker on the back was expired. They're "special" - it's a Ford. Sung to the tune of Paul Simon's "You Can Be My Bodyguard": www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
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UPDATE - December 5, 2018: : Armored Truck Guard Missing and So Is The Cash:
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/12/07/what-we-kno...
Louisville Metro Police are continuing to look for the armored-truck driver who went missing Wednesday along with an unknown amount of cash from the truck.
LMPD Lt. Steve Kaufling said driver Mark N. Espinosa, 29, and an undetermined amount of money went missing Wednesday afternoon. The truck was parked outside Jefferson Mall, 4801 Outer Loop, and belongs to security services company GardaWorld. ...
Kaufling said Espinosa's employer had "good things to say about him" and that he has been with the company a "short period of time."
GardaWorld Corporation is the world's largest private security services company and is based in Montreal, Canada, according to the company's website.
Isabelle Panelli, a GardaWorld spokeswoman, told the Courier Journal in an email that the company "will not speculate as to possible scenarios" in Espinosa's case.
"GardaWorld is cooperating fully with local law enforcement," Panelli wrote. "We are also deploying all efforts to locate our employee and hope to find him safe and sound."
Reach Billy Kobin at bkobin@courierjournal.com or 502-582-7030.
Site adjacent to and on top of over a decade of illegal dumping next to a "protected natural area" and water tower. Across the street is the Rogers Quarry - sandstone & limestone.
These two kind gentlemen are working on a huge industrial construction project locally. Their company (DynaSteel) hails from Georgia, USA -- it was quite evident they were not a Kentucky-based business as their work practices were in accordance with the recommended OSHA policies and procedures set in place to prevent workplace accidents and injuries. Perhaps Kentucky employers will learn this one day.