We have an interesting publication credit this week--Oxford University Press is releasing a new text book...


Title: Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception

Author: Snowden, Thompson and Troscianko

The book will contain a photo from the Sagehen collection by Irene Timossi.

The holiday storm was unbelievable, leaving us 11.75" of water by the time it left us on Monday. Most of that came as rain which caused significant flooding in the creek, in intermittant channels, along the roadway, and over the ground in places we've never seen water flow. Even today--four days after the last precipitation--there is still water flowing over the ground. Fortunately, we have the repaired tractor to help clear up the road damage, so we can still drive in & out of the station even if it is a bit rough.

The Fuel Depot, the Classroom and the Tool Shed all saw water & mud flowing over their floors, but fortunately there appears to be no real damage since we have everything of value elevated on blocks. Here are some photos of the event:




The creek left its banks behind, filling the meadows with flowing water.




The tiny rivulet behind the Lower Camp became a large creek in itself. Flowing water reached the East Meadow weather station...




...& surrounded the Fish house & USGS gauge. Oddly enough, the Fish house basement didn't fill with water.




The Fish house weir held up despite large logs blocking the flow, but water filled it up & simply went around it.




Intermittant channels that usually only see water during snowmelt if at all grew to large tributaries.




Water sheeting over the ground found the roads & turned them into riverbeds.