Panoramic Flood Photos, Comparison to Ivan

Since presenting you with local flooding photos and a video last week, I have uploaded many more pictures, including the panoramas shown below (apologies to our wireless users).

Panoramic shots are a great way to get a feel for the vastness of flooding, and you don't even need a special camera -- software like ArcSoft Panorama Maker® 4 Pro will "stitch" the photos together for you. Click on each picture, then click on "View All Sizes" to download the originals. You can then view them in a full-screen viewer and pan across.

Below is a plot of the USGS Houserville creek gauge (with a photo that I took during this event). You'll note that I arrived about an hour late, when the level of the water had fallen by several inches (a fact I lament in the video).

The water at this gauge rose from 3.5 to 8 feet, with a flow 1,000 cubic feet per second, compared with a normal of about 75! Last Saturday March 8th, the creek rose again to 6.5 feet with more heavy rain, and I thought I might be out taking more pics, but the rain tapered off.

But this flood was still playing second fiddle to "the big one"... Hurricane Ivan on 9/18/04 caused the Houserville USGS Gauge to rise to 9.5 Feet, with a flow of 1,900 cubic ft/s. If you're viewing this on a desktop computer, below are side-by-side comparisons between Ivan and last week's event.

Two comparisons of Spring Creek Park...

In the comparison below at the USGS gauge, the "X" marks where I was standing last Wednesday when I took the photo - because during Ivan I couldn't cross the road to take a comparison picture.

And finally, below is the USGS gauge itself (during Ivan, the pole that it sits on was completely under water - that's only a reflection that you see.

I have also documented several other less newsworthy flooding events here over the last 10 years, but only one other one since I began blogging in 2005 - that was March 2nd last year, click here for photos and video.

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