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Stayed here on 3rd night while section hiking from Erwin, TN to Hot Springs, NC. I arrived mid-day with blue sky and sunshine but left the next morning in the pouring rain. Located 2.7 miles south of Devil Fork Gap.
Flint and Lady Jaye spy on a Cobra telecomm crew some yards away. They only have one shot with the rocket launcher and if they are spotted there's very little chance they can outrun the Cobra Panther.
Everyone's favorite Joe couple...Well at least mine. Pretty old pic from one of the Weekend Warrior themes.
Class 175 Commuter train at Flint Station Sunday Morning the next train will arrive in 2 hours! hence the number of carriages
Finished building 1284. Flint Castle is also famous as the location of a fateful meeting in 1399 between Richard II and his rival to the crown Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), an event immortalised in Shakespeare’s Richard II.
The Flint Facade - artist's impression. International invited competition winning design for a new landmark department store.
Vineyard Gate, Colchester, UK.
Title: Flint, Michigan n.d.
Date: undated
Description: Flint, Michigan n.d. (Manning Lantern Slide: 1630)
Image ID: 218.LS.1630
Related Information: Warren H. Manning Papers at the Iowa State University Library
Copyright 2009, Iowa State University Library, University Archives
For Reproductions: www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html
Where the Flint River empties into the Caribbean Sea by the Tryall Golf Course
I like the silvery grays of this scene
Poladroid conversions of the previous images of Flint Castle.
From Wikipedia:
Flint was the first castle of what would later become known as Edward I's "Iron Ring". A chain of fortresses designed to encircle North Wales and oppress the Welsh. Its construction began almost immediately after Edward I began the First Welsh War in 1277.
Five years later Welsh forces under the command of Dafydd ap Gruffydd, brother of Llywelyn the Last besieged the castle in an attempted uprising against the English Crown. In 1294 Flint was attacked again during the revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn; this time the constable of the castle was forced to set fire to the fortress to prevent its capture by the Welsh. The castle was later repaired and partly rebuilt.
With the conclusion to the Welsh Wars, English settlers and merchants were given property titles in the new town that was laid out in front of the castle. The plantation borough was protected by a defensive ditch with a wooden palisade on earth banking. Its outline remains visible in streets patterns.
In 1399 Richard II of England was held by Henry Bolingbroke at Flint before being returned to London.
During the English Civil War, Flint Castle was held by the Royalists. It was finally captured by the Parliamentarians in 1647 after a three-month siege. To prevent its reuse in the conflict, the castle was then slighted in accordance with Cromwell's destruction order. The ruins are what remain today.
By the 19th century part of the site's outer bailey was used as Flintshire's County Jail. A quarry also operated nearby.
(CNN)Flint, Michigan, lies about 70 miles from the shores of the largest group of fresh water bodies in the world: the Great Lakes. Yet its residents can't get clean water from their taps.
A city employee flushes out a hydrant.
A city employee flushes out a hydrant.
FEMA aiding in toxic water crisis
FEMA aiding in toxic water crisis 03:15
Nearly two years ago, the state decided to save money by switching Flint's water supply from Lake Huron (which they were paying the city of Detroit for), to the Flint River, a notorious tributary that runs through town known to locals for its filth.
"We thought it was a joke," said Rhonda Kelso, a long-time Flint resident. "People my age and older, thought 'They're not going to do that.' "
The switch was made during a financial state of emergency for the ever-struggling industrial town. It was supposed to be temporary while a new state-run supply line to Lake Huron was ready for connection. The project was estimated to take about two years.
What's in the water?
Soon after the switch, the water started to look, smell and taste funny. Residents said it often looked dirty.
Rhonda Kelso and her daughter
Rhonda Kelso and her daughter
"The water would come in brown and my daughter was like 'Mom ... why is the water brown?' "
Kelso thought it was sewage, but it was actually iron. The Flint River is highly corrosive: 19 times more so than the Lake Huron supply, according to researchers from Virginia Tech.
According to a class-action lawsuit, the state Department of Environmental Quality wasn't treating the Flint River water with an anti-corrosive agent, in violation of federal law. Therefore, the water was eroding the iron water mains, turning water brown.
But what residents couldn't see was far worse. About half of the service lines to homes in Flint are made of lead and because the water wasn't properly treated, lead began leaching into the water supply, in addition to the iron.
This had been the status quo for nearly two years, and until September, city and state officials told worried residents that everything was fine. Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling even drank it on local TV to make the point.
The city is now issuing bottled water to Flint residents.
The city is now issuing bottled water to Flint residents.
But in August, a group of skeptical researchers from Virginia Tech came up and did in-home testing and found elevated levels of lead in the drinking water and made those findings public. State officials insisted their own research was more accurate.
"You're paying for poison. I'm paying for water that's a toxic waste," Kelso said. She and her daughter and four other families are now part of a class-action lawsuit that alleges not only lead poisoning but several medical conditions resulting from contaminated water after the switch. CNN sought responses from all the defendants, and many did not respond.
Later it became publicly known that federal law had not been followed. A 2011 study on the Flint River found it would have to be treated with an anti-corrosive agent for it to be considered as a safe source for drinking water.
Adding that agent would have cost about $100 a day, and experts say 90% of the problems with Flint's water would have been avoided.
But Flint residents say they were kept in the dark for 18 months until a local doctor took things into her own hands.
Read here about the Flint Public Art Project: flintpublicartproject.com/
Downtown Flint, Michigan.
Monday, June 6, 2022.
Title: Flint, Michigan n.d.
Date: undated
Description: Flint, Michigan n.d. (Manning Lantern Slide: 1622)
Image ID: 218.LS.1622
Related Information: Warren H. Manning Papers at the Iowa State University Library
Copyright 2009, Iowa State University Library, University Archives
For Reproductions: www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html