Hard Rain Brings Creek Surge for Grassroots
It’s been a dark, dank first day of the Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance 2007. It rained so hard this evening that I could hardly see the apple tree just 40 feet outside the window.
Watch out, Grassroots attendees. Though the Taughannock Creek waterfalls under the bridge on route 96 are a great place to take a dip and get refreshed when the water level is normal, it can get dangerous quite quickly, especially when there’s a sudden surge of rain like the one we had tonight, which comes down too quickly for the ground to absorb.
Last summer we had quite a few people swept away to their deaths in gorges around Ithaca. Please, no wet corpses with tie die this weekend.
Thanks for the warning, Louie… although I think it is usually spelled “tie dye” and is more an expression of colorful artistic sensibilities than a swimming death-wish.
Biggest GrassRoots difficulty associated with the rain seemed to be the muddy ruts in the off-site parking. With a bit of towing by Koskinen’s and a bit of gravel-spreading on the roadways and straw-spreading on the walkways, things were in much better order there today than last night.
This does bring up the foregone local business opportunities associated with a rainy spell during GrassRoots. I keep thinking that there should be alternative activities (under cover) that folks could choose if it rains. Like, say, vintage movies at the Conservatory or a big poetry-read at Gimmee. I dunno. Me, I wanted to see a matinee of “Sicko” Thursday afternoon, but there was none to see in the whole county. Today, its dry again, and I’m enjoying my 17th GrassRoots, with a whole bunch of current and former locals, as well as all the visitors.
Didn’t know where to post this so I thought I would take a chance here. The village now has a new website that is up and running. http://www.trumansburg-ny.gov Hope everyone takes a look at it and tell the board members what you think.
Thanks Marcia,
The new village website isn’t bad, but check out my new blog – http://trumansburgimpeachment.blogspot.com/