How do you tell when a 100 pound Rotweiller is ecstatic? When she turns into an alligator.
The water is down a couple of inches as you can see by the watermarks, but it’s still pretty full.
Picture by Gretchen, 17 August 2008.
Picture by Gretchen, 17 August 2008.
Picture by Gretchen, 13 August 2008.
I don’t know the vintage of this picture. Those more clever than me could try dating it by the style of the Coca-Cola ads or the electrical poles or the clothes or the locomotive engine. I would guess 1920s.
This is the railroad (then known as the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad) that caused Troupville residents to uproot themselves and to found Valdosta as the Lowndes County seat at the present location, on the main line from Savannah to Thomasville. So this is the original Valdosta train station. I don’t know if it’s the original building, but it’s the original location, between Patterson and Ashley, where the overpass starts now.
Picture courtesy of Lowndes County Historical Society. They’ve got a caboose out back, too.
Picture by Gretchen, 22 August 2008.
And after 4 more inches (9 total), 7:50 AM Monday 25 August 2008:
More water in the ditches; otherwise about the same.
Pictures by jsq.
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Picture by Gretchen, 24 Aug 2008.
This picture doesn’t demonstrate that the dog can swim, because our boots weren’t that tall.
In any case, thanks to 9 inches of rain from tropical storm Fay.
Pictures by Gretchen.