{"id":4159,"date":"2015-10-05T11:18:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2015-10-06T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:52:34","slug":"be-a-junior-forensic-hydrologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2015\/10\/be-a-junior-forensic-hydrologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Junior Forensic Hydrologist! One Weird Trick for Staying Dry in Flood-Time #scflood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Still have power? Internet? \u00a0Here\u2019s a fun game you can play at home to add verve to your obsessive trolling of SC flood photos. \u00a0(Me? Do that?) \u00a0What you\u2019ll need is a photo with a caption and Google Earth.<\/p>\n

Using those clues, you, too, can identify which dams have failed and which are (probably) still standing. You can do it all from the comfort of your living room, and with no pesky PhD to bother about. \u00a0 If there\u2019s not a dam breaking over\u00a0your<\/em> house, everyone thanks you for staying firmly seated and conjecturing from afar.<\/p>\n

Note: Before you begin this game, check real quick on the condition of the dams above your house. \u00a0All good? \u00a0If not, remove to high ground before you continue.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll play a few times so you get the hang of it.<\/p>\n

Our first photo was posted on Facebook without a caption<\/a> (witness the arguments in the combox over that), of a flooded bridge. \u00a0I originally thought it was from the coast, but a friend gave me the necessary clue: Nursery Road.<\/p>\n

Go look up \u201cNursery Road, Columbia, SC\u201d on Google maps. Right now. \u00a0When you find it, scroll along the road until you see a pond (or two, in this case) that just might be the dam failure. \u00a0Find it yet? \u00a0It feeds into Rawl\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n

Now switch to Street View, and voila! \u00a0You\u2019re looking at the non-flooded bridge. \u00a0And you, Junior Hydrologist, have just identified the probable dam failure that flooded that bridge. \u00a0Neat, huh? \u00a0Didn\u2019t even need an umbrella.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s do another one.<\/p>\n

This one<\/a> took me a few minutes to figure out, because I knew too much. \u00a0The captions reads, \u201cFox Hall Road in Forest Acres.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Because I knew Forest Acres is in Columbia, I foolishly Googled \u201cFox Hall Road, Columbia, SC.\u201d Big mistake. Google recognizes Forest Acres as the independent, if wholly surrounded, town that it is. \u00a0 \u00a0Use the original caption for your search, and Google Maps takes you right to the place, despite the minor spelling variation.<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019ve found the road, but where did the water come from?<\/p>\n

The obvious place to look is that creek that intersects Foxhall, and if you didn\u2019t use Street View to verify, you might settle for assuming you were looking at damage from the (unnamed on Google) pond that feeds Eight Mile Branch.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d be wrong, conjectures this Junior Amateur Hydrologist. \u00a0The houses don\u2019t match. \u00a0After some fruitless searching, I took another look at the map of Foxhall, and noticed there\u2019s a small pond backing up to a different section of the road. \u00a0Zoom in to Street View at 3423, and you\u2019ll see that now you\u2019ve got the house that matches the photo. \u00a0You can see on Street View the drainage culvert that matches the flood scene in the Facebook photo.<\/p>\n

Now go back to the map, and we Junior Hydrologists can conclude that it was the small pond facing Pine Belt that either overflowed or gave way.<\/p>\n

Now you try it at home! \u00a0All you need are some lightly-captioned photos and you\u2019re off. \u00a0It\u2019s no longer necessary to go wandering around the state gawking\u00a0and wearing out the whitewater rescue teams when you get swept away in the fresh dam failures that are going to continue<\/a> until the entire weather system has had its chance to drain into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

You can impress your friends with your knowledge of SC water systems, all while impressing emergency services with your newfound ability to stay inside and off the roads.<\/p>\n

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Ireland, we have your weather here. Please come take it home now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Map: South Carolina, 1889. Rand Mcnally & Co. (National Public Domain Archive) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Still have power? Internet? \u00a0Here\u2019s a fun game you can play at home to add verve to your obsessive trolling of SC flood photos. \u00a0(Me? Do that?) \u00a0What you\u2019ll need is a photo with a caption and Google Earth. Using those clues, you, too, can identify which dams have failed and which are (probably) still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,362,422],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-all-catholic","category-not-satire-but-almost","category-south-carolina","tag-sc-flood-hurricane-joaquin"],"yoast_head":"\nBe a Junior Forensic Hydrologist! One Weird Trick for Staying Dry in Flood-Time #scflood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Still have power? 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