Froggy Bottom Cafe and Lounge: Early Week Deluge Edition

Alright. For some of us we have one more day left in a long weekend. Others of us may be facing a morning commute. Grab a beverage and chill for a sec if you can. If you don’t live near a major river valley, count your blessings this week. Arkansas and Mississippi river valleys have really been hammered (the latter for most of the calendar year). Maybe some relief in sight? We’ll see. In the meantime, some music to start us off.

Cheers!

Author: Don Durito

Left of center and lover of photography, music, pop culture, and life. Favorite quote - "There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility" (Lisbeth Salander, from Stieg Larsson's original Millennium Trilogy).

9 thoughts on “Froggy Bottom Cafe and Lounge: Early Week Deluge Edition”

  1. One thing I am going to be getting used to for the next few weeks are deer within the city limits. That is unheard of. Then again, when their homes were affected by a flood of a very highly improbable magnitude (around .2%), that is to be expected.

    1. For the past two days on our way to breakfast we saw deer in the middle of the road in our neighborhood and one of them seemed to dare walk up close to the car. Weird .

  3. I have been all around my local area on various errands and the flood damage is something to behold. Most of us are safe, although perhaps a bit stressed. The low-lying areas are getting hit hard. Several river valleys throughout the US are hurting right now. In the meantime I am experiencing things I would have never imagined, such as actually walking across what would usually be a busy highway bridge. Got some good photos out of that. Saw a lot of community members taking it all in. This is a flood folks in my area will be talking about for many years to come. I saw things today I can never unsee. Climate change is real, y’all. Watching small towns near you get wiped off the map is not something that you can pretend is somehow a good thing or something you will ever forget. No doubt I will share photos, but they will be ones borne of pain.

  5. If you live in or near a flood zone, there comes a time when things become very real. The last 24 hours or so things became very real for me. There are things I will never unsee. I got some ideas of how tangible climate change really is. I do the right things – recycle, drive fuel effient/hybrid vehicles, etc., and it really hit. I could use some comfort around now. Anyone else in similar circumstances would say the same.

    1. Those sorts of views put this in perspective a bit. I may put up another tweet that shows how the Arkansas River system works. When you think of all the precipitation that has happened in eastern Oklahoma and in Kansas, you can understand just how a major flood event like this one can happen.

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