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Okay, okay... I know he's digging a hole, but my way sounds funnier.
date: 1/13/11
site: Cedar Rapids
group: Lakeside Middle School
Pendleton, Indiana (01-28-09) The snow storm that swept across Indiana and much of the Midwest Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning left Pendleton, as well as the rest of Indiana, digging out much of Wednesday.
Many businesses and all of the area schools were closed because of the road conditions. Devon Price and George Price, for the Pendleton-Gazette, were out Wednesday morning and captured what the snow storm left behind.
A random snapshot of a few pieces of large and medium sized heavy machinery and equipment that are being used to dig out the center left-turning lanes within the center of Brookway Boulevard and replace it with a grassy median that divides the eastbound and westbound travel lanes in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
They are basically extending the grassy median from I-55 over to a little bit past the Taco Bell and Walmart traffic lights. I don't really know if they are going to extend the grassy median beyond the Walmart and Taco Bell lights but the Boulevard is extra-wide out in front of Walmart towards I-55. The reason why this section of the road is extra wide was because there was originally a grassy median there before it was replaced by wide left-turn center lanes. It would be quite crazy if the more busier western half of the Boulevard between I-55 and US 51 had a grassy median with a few turn around spots like its less busier eastern half with light poles within it.
While this project is underway and they are digging out the old left-turn lanes for the new grassy median, the left lanes in each direction will also be closed off to traffic, essentially turning the Boulevard into a very busy and heavily congested divided "2-lane" highway as most of the traffic from both Brookhaven and Lincoln County is concentrated onto that stretch of road to gain access to many of the big chain restaurants and Walmart.
When they get rid of that long, divided left-turning lane here at the intersection of Brookway Boulevard and Magee Drive as they'll have it moved closer to the main eastbound lanes while replacing the old one with a new grassy median to divide the travel lanes, they'll have to move or replace the traffic light signals here as there would be no need for the extra added signals here.
I don't really know if this is true but there's also the possibility of both the City and State's plans to install two roundabouts over at where the on and off ramps at I-55 to make it "easier" for traffic to get on and off of the interstate highway. The main problem with that is that most people around here can barely drive in a straight line on a nice sunny day much less knowing how to drive through a basic roundabout. I'm more surprised that the city didn't make that interchange into four-way stops as this small city is "addicted" to them being everywhere.
Caroline & Amanda (foreground) hard at work at removing 3 cm of soil from the site, as people in the background plot a different area to dig.
So a second shot of Liz as Alice and Catherine because I was really digging Liz's costume this day. She was doing the new bodice with an overskirt over pants. If I remember right. Anyhow, it rocked.
Amalia digging in to her birthday brownies. She turned 3 last weekend!
I'm in the middle of processing photos from her party, but I wanted to post this one because it's one of my faves.
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Digging the Mine
“We could blow that damn fort out of existence if we could run a mine shaft under it.”
– A private of the 48th Pennsylvania
June 23, 1864
Spurred by the offhand suggestion of a former coal miner, on June 25, 1864, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants put his 48th Pennsylvania to digging. Their objective: to tunnel under the Confederate line and blow up the battery at Elliott’s Salient.
Beginning on June 25, 1864, and continuing for the next month, these Pennsylvania coal miners burrowed a shaft 511 feet into this hillside. Then they packed four tons of powder into the magazines under the Confederate battery. At 3:15 a.m. on July 30, Pleasants lit the fuse and scrambled out of the tunnel.
From the caption to the background painting:
Men of the 48th Pennsylvania dug the mine. Remembered one onlooker, “I used to watch them popping out of the hole like so many brown gophers.”
From the caption to the inset portrait:
Lt. Col. Henry A. Pleasants, a former mining engineer – the architect of the Petersburg Mine.
Florida softshell turtle digging a nest/hole to lay her eggs. See the dirt flying! Lake Ella, Tallahassee, FL
Finally - a path between the garage and the house. And as a bonus I think I just found the bench again :)
Our last day on IOW and low and behold the sun shone all day without rain! We got to the beach and we stayed their for as long as we could before heading into Shanklin for cream tea (me) and ice creams (boys).
It was wonderful, appreciated perhaps all the more because the rest of the week's weather was so unpredictable.