Fall Plans

[brad03ca]

WE're off this weekend to Bon Echo Provincial Park. Gonna do a little fishing, and just enjoy the Fall colours. Supposed to be sunny and 71 degrees. Any one else venturing out?

[rockman]

fly fishing was excellent.
caught and released a 19", 12", 18", and 22" rainbow trout all in same day.
pulling in a 22" fighter from a canoe was exciting.
surrounded by the fall colours of aspen and birch just makes it better.
had a spectacular northern lights display to top the day off.

[Little Kopit]

This isn't a fall camping tale, but it could have come close to that.

At 7:20 a.m. this morning a bunch of us from work headed down to Stephenville, NL for some meetings. Now, we've had a rainy rainy September and today we've had a heavy rainfall warning. I got elected to drive. On the Trans Canada part of way down a shoulder was washed out and at another the roads crew waved us into a detour. About 10:00 we were told Stephenville has a state of emergency. They continued: "if you don't leave now you could be staying for days".

Our IT people were in another van past a stretch of road which was running board deep with brook overflow. We teamed up and drove out of town over some stretches of roads with water a few inches deep. It was single lane where the shoulder had been washed out earlier.

Low lying homes and businesses in Stephenville are flooded. There will be a lot of people camping/bunking in with others this week.

This is unusual. We don't usually have rainy fall's like this. & a lot of this was 'an adrenalin trip'.

[brad03ca]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> This is unusual. We don't usually have rainy fall's like this. & a lot of this was 'an adrenalin trip' </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Well Kopit, with the way things have been worldwide RE; floods, earthquakes, tornadoes etc, flooding on the Rock dosen't surprise me.
I take it your meeting was cancelled?

[brad03ca]

Sounds like a good time to be in the bush rockman. Does the soul good to get away like that. Atlantic Salmon( stocked in Lake Ontario) are starting to run the Ganaraska River now, which runs through Port Hope.
I'll be heading out for Walleye this weekend.

[Little Kopit]

That post was my first online vent. I'd already told the tale a couple of times.

Brad, I'll e-mail a few pictures to you. I don't have work time to post them right now. & they're all nested together, so it could be beyond me.

More recent reports are that some houses in Stephenville have been washed away. In the pictures, the water level for the red van was lower than what I drove through and that on the green truck was higher.

& it rained all last night my Internet connection went down sometime over night. So, I may not be able to get on from home today.

Yes, the workplace where the meeting was was closed for the day, closed by the time I signed in from my normal work.

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[brad03ca]

Lynne your pictures look similar to what happened in Toronto 5 weeks ago. Flash flooding caused damage to hundreds of homes, to the point where people are still cleaning up and rebuilding.

[Little Kopit]

I have another 20 or so of them from later on. They came through individually, so I can post some of them. But later.

[brad03ca]

L.K. I say the floods in Stephenville, on Toronto news. Totally more devistating than I imagined.

[Little Kopit]

The power went out here.

But I have posted some pictures from Stephenville. There are 4 of them in this lot.

No doubt there are a lot of people staying with family and friends or in the camper, if they're lucky.