Subj : Re: flood stuff was: Vacation To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Oct 31 2019 01:19:38 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 25-Oct-2019 08:16 <=- NB>> Back from the (hopefully) last trip of the year... ;) BM> Welcome back! Thank you... :) BM>> Davenport is older; Bettendorf originally was a 'bedroom community'. BM>> As for why Kimberly Rd. makes that right angle turn, no idea other than BM>> a guess of finishing the street off. It's about forty blocks parallel BM>> to the Mississippi River and has always been a major east-west BM>> thoroughfare. Maybe years ago (before Bettendorf) it made sense to BM>> make a turn at the end of Davenport to allow the road to finish some BM>> place logical, or at least connect to the other east-west roads. NB>> As good a reason as any... :) BM> "That's my story an' I'm stickin' with it!" To me would be one of BM> those fun side-excursions to ask/find out why but I wouldn't want to BM> get deeper than the surface. First question would be "who is BM> 'Kimberly'?", and then "we're off!" style>. It's the sort of thing that a local history section of your library probably would have information on... :) BM>>> ...If one continues straight from Davenport's Kimberly Rd. goes into BM>>> Bettendorf's Spruce Hills Drive. It is hilly, maybe was a patch of BM>>> spruce woods originally? NB>>> I'd guess that Kimberly Rd was the original road, and when they NB>>> wanted to put in a road up the hill, it got the new name... and might NB>>> have been plenty of spruces there originally... or at the end of the NB>>> road... ;) BM>> Or "we spruced up that hill" and got contracted! NB>> I like my guess better... BM> See what happens when on starts asking questions? People start getting silly....? NB>>> We did it for our 40th, to be a little different, and then again NB>>> for our 45th because it had been so much fun... We did the Sam Patch NB>>> one first, and then a slightly larger one, on a different section of NB>>> the canal, the second time... :) BM>> Sounds like a good celebration! NB>> It was... :) And well enjoyed... :) For our 50th we did the NB>> dinner at a party house... and had a good time there, too... :) BM> Good. :) ...I'm trying to think of a 'party house' around here. Know BM> you're not implying the wild college toga event but a BM> banquet hall type event in a home environment. ...Probably are some. Not so much a home environment... It's a banquet hall that is free-standing... and the restaurant there only used for events, such as weddings, anniversaries and reunions and the like... Around here we call such an establishment a party house.... quite a few of them around here, but mostly in the quieter areas of the suburbs... This particular one was tucked down a dead end road off a major thoroughfare, in an almost rural setting.... I'd brought my niece to that particular place for a wedding before we used it for our school reunion.... :) NB>>> I guess they'll just have to weigh the risk/benefits... Short of NB>>> moving the whole business section further from the River, I'd NB>>> guess they'd want to stay where the business is... :) BM>> IMO yes. Several decades ago may have been a good time to move BM>> Downtown as was pretty much deteriorating: "everything" moved to the BM>> Malls and 'shopping Downtown Davenport' was no longer. Recently a BM>> return to Downtown, so would be difficult/expensive to move it. BM>> ...They'll figure it out. NB>> I'm sure they will... :) BM> They might want to get movin': the Mississippi has above flood stage BM> by about half a foot the past couple of weeks and predicted to stay BM> above for at least another few weeks. Some roads were closed but all BM> have re-opened; just some land along the River is home to fishes. That doesn't bode all that well for next spring, does it.... BM>> Right. The current/recent flooding is hitting our news because is a BM>> local item; not going nationally as not overly spectacular. LeClaire BM>> Park along the River is flooded - pretty much floods to some degree BM>> every year. NB>> So a certain amount of the flooding is just to be expected... It's NB>> only when it is extra high and persistent that it really is NB>> newsworthy... BM> Yes: not unusual to see parks, trails, etc., along the River under a BM> little water in the Spring/early Summer; when it starts to lap at the BM> streets alongside we've got another major flood going on. Is the current flooding less usual, then....? BM>> The website comments have been updated but only as to storage by BM>> month/ season. I take a quick look every so often at the webcams but BM>> haven't seen any activity. Well, does look like the cameras have been BM>> electronically moved: backed off some - not doing a close-up. NB>> The season for nesting won't be until the spring... now things are NB>> more on hold naturally... ;) BM> Are you saying things have cooled off?! ...36ø this morning (Friday, BM> October 25th); they're talking about the probability of a hard freeze BM> late next week and maybe some snow flurries; ansiweather has a BM> snowflake for Monday's forecast. Might be time for me to stop BM> considering wearing long-sleeved shirts and start wearing! Just might be... I don't think we've had a hard freeze yet, although there've been some lows near-freezing... and so far no snow here, either, although the forecast for Sat night and Sunday contain the possibility of rain or snow showers.... shouldn't be sticking yet, though..... ;) ttyl neb .... "I think not" said Descartes, and promptly disappeared. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .