Digging Out From Irene. September 14, 2011
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature, Love and Death.Tags: Deerfield, flower grower, Irene photos
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We’re recovering here from the floods, hitting it hard in order to get cleaned up before winter.
A commercial flower grower in the town of Deerfield took it hard, lost many acres of effort, and the top-soil as well:
The Deerfield river has retreated into its channel behind me, while a four foot deep gash separates these remnants from the rest of the field.
Major earth-moving equipment collects acres and acres of river sand from the fields where fertile topsoil used to be:
It’ll be years before this mess gets back to normal. And that’s assuming another such flood doesn’t happen again in the meantime.
I’m not putting a lot of cash down on that bet.
