Location Taken: Savage, Maryland
Time Taken: August 2010
Every so often we get strong storms that dump lots of rain for hours. I know I’ve mentioned before how the combination of Atlantic humidity and the mountains slowing down fronts can lead to long rains, but it can also just feed more and more moisture into a system. And that means more and more rain, coming down hour after hour.
Flash flood warnings are pretty common in this area, but I don’t worry about them. My home is perched up on a hill above a river valley, so all the water actually has some place to go.
The river can take it too. This photo is after one of those day-long storms, and it’s not even overflowing its banks. It’s close, yes, and half the islands in the river disappear under the murky brown water, but it is all going downstream without any detours into places we humans don’t want it to go.
Still, I occasionally go down to the river, stand on the pedestrian bridge crossing it, and watch the water rush by under my feet. There’s such force and majesty to it, even if it’s just a bunch of muddy water.
