RiverViewer

Wow...that's just stunning stuff! I keep using that word to describe your photos, but it works! I definitely think a thread of them is in order if you have the time, though - it'd be great to see them all in order and everything... So you decided to take your tripod? Or you just have especially steady hands?

Yes, that's Covington - that's The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge - here's the thread on it...

Yeah, my folks happened to be coming into town this weekend, and I remembered that Mom knew someone connected to the building...it was really last-minute, but worked out nicely! It was a great location, but what I liked most was the different perspective on the city...I'm glad we got there early so I could get at least a few pre-sunset city shots. It was a little distant for fireworks, but it was comfortable, and didn't take more than six or seven minutes to get home, since we were six blocks ahead of everyone and got out ahead of the traffic!

Not the same view as last year... Here's a few pre-fireworks shots: The parachuters: It wasn't a spectacular sunset, but it was a beautiful one... ...reflecting off Scripps: The big plane, maybe a bomber? Ah, what a building: Night is falling: Like I said - not spectacular, but beautiful: And now fireworks shots: Aw, hearts: Goodnight, my lady:

Absolutely fantastic - what great shots! The colors are just stunning...

^Just what the forum needs - another lonely single guy!

I would say "you have no idea," but I know that you understand completely...

My actual worst job was as a roofer. I was living in Euclid, and was the organist/music director at St. Christine's just down the street, but was going to be leaving so I didn't renew my contract, and switched from full-time there to gigging around town. That left a hole in the ol' paycheck, and my first attempt to fill it was answering an ad for a roofing company out in Solon - it paid $7/hour! So, up at 5:30, out to Solon by 7am, along with a dozen other new guys and maybe a dozen regulars...filled out paperwork, and by sunrise we were up on a dew-soaked cedar-slat roof, ripping off slats, tossing them onto tarps, then gang-hauling tarps to the edge of the roof, slipping as you walk, but if you held onto the tarp, you could keep from going off the edge...it was slippery, dangerous, certainly not OSHA-approved... The worst was on the highest peak...I was ripping off slats, and just started to slide. Slowly, but inexorably. Nothing I could do to stop, nobody could get to me, and there was nothing between me and falling three floors to the paved sidewalk and rock-strewn flowerbeds except a flimsy rain gutter. For some reason, I just stopped - I would say one of the saints I invoked for help must have heard me, but I don't believe there's a "Saint Oshitoshit" anywhere in Butler... It was a 10 hour shift, and after eight hours, I was completely blown...didn't get any work done the last two hours, so I refused the paycheck - I felt bad, quitting after a day, knowing I wasn't coming back - I guess that was SOP for these guys, because they were really nice and appreciated that I told them I wasn't coming back...best $70 I ever lost, because it completely remediated all guilt I felt about it...but yeah, that sucked...

I trust you came home stuffed to the gills, eh? Thanks for bringing the festival to us!

Yeah, that's exactly my guess...which is why it's so frustrating. I LOVE my neighborhood, good and bad, and it just aggravates the hell out of me when people pull some of its more interesting stuff out of it...if it were borderline, that'd be one thing, but this is as purely Walnut Hills as Peeble's Corner...

Somebody, please, send this article to Duke Frickin' Energy. They're threatening to turn off my electric for the umpteenth time because they haven't gotten in to read my meter in almost a year...can't give them a key, because we have animals loose in the house, so I need to take a half day off just to pay them money...ach, I despise that...especially when they don't bother to show the hell up, as has happened twice already...

NO NO NO NO NO!!! That's Walnut Hills, not East Walnut Hils. Come on, this one isn't even frickin' close...gah. I guess if it's shi-shi, it couldn't be plain ol' Walnut... I'm too sensitive about it, I know...but gah...

I've sent this to just about everyone I know, including my mother-in-law (who, as you can imagine, is remarkably cool)... Absolutely hilarious...

Dude, you've gotta post more photo threads...great gear + great eye = NEED MORE PHOTO THREADS... Say, did we drive through there when I swung through Madison a while back? I thought I recognized some of that, but not all of it...

Yeah, I'm fine with the whole baby-got-back thing - I'm just not into baby's-utterly-mis-shapen...

Kingfish, that's definitely fantastic. I only have three thoughts about it: 1) Wow - friggin' awesome. 2) It might be possible to use the "dot" part of the address as an homage to smaller-town Ohio, by having it reflecting as well - I'm thinking a courthouse with a clock tower kind of thing... 3) That's the thing about logo's - they seem simple, but wow, when someone actually knocks something out of the park, you know it. There may be advice and do's and don't's, but that stuff's just a guide - you still need someone to make contact, and at that point, wow...

LOL...I've definitely never been described that way! But thanks for being impressed!

Nice catch...I've been grabbing this data for a little over three years, so I can confirm that this station used to report based on a flood stage of 18 feet, but that changed in October, 2006. Digging back through, I found that they included this note in the daily forecast for a while around that time: ATTENTION: BEGINNING OCTOBER 20...THE METHOD THE NWS USES TO REPORT RIVER STAGE AT THE GREAT MIAMI AT HAMILTON WILL CHANGE. THE USGS AND THE MIAMI CONSERVANCY DISTRICT BOTH REPORT HAMILTON RIVER ELEVATION AS A FUNCTION OF THE MEAN SEA LEVEL ELEVATION...WHILE THE NWS CURRENTLY CONVERTS THIS VALUE DAILY TO THE ACTUAL DEPTH OF WATER IN THE RIVER. EFFECTIVE IN MID OCTOBER...THE NWS WILL REPORT THE STAGE AND FORECAST VALUES USING THE SAME METHODOLOGY AS THE USGS AND THE CONSERVANCY. FOR AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE RIVER DATA ACTUALLY IS REPORTING, PLEASE REFERENCE THE FOLLOWING USGS PAGE... HTTP://WATERDATA.USGS.GOV/OH/NWIS/UV?03274000 Now, I'm not sure why they decided to do this - I mean, the other heights are based on the actual depth of the water in the river - but for some reason, they decided they needed to do it. Now, given that flood stage went from 18 feet to 75 feet, I guess all you have to do is subtract 57 feet from whatever it reads to get back to the actual depth of the river. It also means that those 52' levies have now become 109' levies, relatively speaking... I guess that still leaves the question of why they did that in this one location...on the site map for that station, there's a link for anyone who has questions about this site or its data (look for the "Questions about sites/data?" link near the bottom). I'd imagine they can help explain why the change...if you find anything out, please let us know - I'd love to hear why they did this... P.S. Ink - know your watershed!

The Ohio River isn't actually rising - it's been really, really low for a long time now - in fact, it hasn't cracked 30 feet since May 1st (which isn't terribly unusual). But I ran across a reference to the time in 1967 when a barge blocked one of Markland's gates open, and the river level got as low as 14ish feet in Cincinnati. So using the New York Time Historical Newspaper Database that comes with one's Cincinnati Library cardholdership, I found this AP story in the June 1st, 1967 New York Times: OHIO RIVER CLEARED OF A SUNKEN BARGE CINCINNATI, May 31 (AP) A sunken barge that had blocked Gate 5 of the Markland Dam and caused a traffic jam on the Ohio River was removed today, the United States Army Engineers reported. Army spokesmen said normal traffic on the river's 95-mile run between Markland, Ind., and Chilo, Ohio, would soon be able to resume. Because the gate had been jammed open, the water level had fallen too low for towboats, and traffic had been halted since Friday. A string of barges tore loose May 16 and smashed against the dam, which is 61 miles downstream from Cincinnati. The barges caused some damage, but the stubborn vessel at the bottom of Gate 5 gave the most trouble. Workmen first tried to raise the barge with a crane but could not put enough slings under the vessel. Explosives also proved unsuccessful. Finally, engineers pumped air under the capsized hull to raise it. It was lashed to a floating barge and pulled out of the gate.

GCrites - I'm guessing the answer is more savvy...I just hated to wear gloves, so I'd just let my hands get cut up the first day or two of bailing, but they'd build up calluses pretty quickly. Made the first field's first cutting a pretty miserable time, but the rest of the summer, it was worth it...I did the same thing mowing the lawn when I was a kid - get huge blisters the first few mowings, but then I didn't have to screw with gloves all year. And yeah, I'd take the pain over the heat, so it was shorts for me...

+1 +2, and for only $5/hour. I knew someone doing it for only $3/hour at another place. Surprising how many hay-pitchers there are here on "UrbanOhio"! Yeah, I did it for $3/hour - minimum wage was $3.35 at the time, but it was agricultural so they didn't have to pay minimum... Don't forget about the haycuts you get on your sunburned legs, which you then sweat into...but the worst part is after you finish a layer of hay in the barn, sticking your ripped-up hand into the bucket of salt to spread the salt on each layer. That was just gratuitous...of course, a barn burned down up the street because of green hay a few years earlier, so they were very strict about the salt part... But I'll be honest - I loved that job...

Holy crap! What else do you have in those boxes? More treasures from the past that you'll be sharing with us all soon??? Oh, and thank you for these too!

Hey, thanks for posting them! Looks like you had a nice long walk that day! Say, where's the mural of the rather non-attractive women painted at?

Pardon me for my zombie-dom, but this Yankee is going to continue to entertain friends in the kitchen while cooking AND drinking...

Of course it is. Why do think they can't find anyone to work the mean streets of the CBD?