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I finished the painting of the deer skull. I may do another one - or something similar - to auction off and see if I can raise some cash for Japan's rescue and recovery efforts.
When I lived in WV (as an adult, not as a kid, when I worked at the sign shop), we had a long period of rain. The dam was getting full so to prevent a breakage, they were forced to open the gates. I remember standing up on the hill in Wayne at my aunts house talking to family as we watched a cop down in the valley. He'd drive from one trailer to another. People would soon be running out of the houses, some carrying possessions, jump in their vehicles and scream off down the road. Not even fifteen minutes later, a wall of water just rolled down the creek. The trailers were submerged up to their roof lines. It's pretty sad to see that. These people were piss poor to begin with and now, what little they did have, has been swept under the current and down to the Ohio River. I went driving around the higher ground areas. Water was up almost to the bottom of the bridge in New Town. Out in Barboursville, the water was OVER one of the bridges out to the Boy Scout farm. When the landscape looks like this /VVV\ you get a lot of water coming down the mountains and into the valleys.
Seeing the footage on TV of the tsunami waters rolling across the fields and houses in Japan reminded me of that personal memory.
Have art club today. Will post art later.
When I lived in WV (as an adult, not as a kid, when I worked at the sign shop), we had a long period of rain. The dam was getting full so to prevent a breakage, they were forced to open the gates. I remember standing up on the hill in Wayne at my aunts house talking to family as we watched a cop down in the valley. He'd drive from one trailer to another. People would soon be running out of the houses, some carrying possessions, jump in their vehicles and scream off down the road. Not even fifteen minutes later, a wall of water just rolled down the creek. The trailers were submerged up to their roof lines. It's pretty sad to see that. These people were piss poor to begin with and now, what little they did have, has been swept under the current and down to the Ohio River. I went driving around the higher ground areas. Water was up almost to the bottom of the bridge in New Town. Out in Barboursville, the water was OVER one of the bridges out to the Boy Scout farm. When the landscape looks like this /VVV\ you get a lot of water coming down the mountains and into the valleys.
Seeing the footage on TV of the tsunami waters rolling across the fields and houses in Japan reminded me of that personal memory.
Have art club today. Will post art later.