The Ohio River overflowed its banks.
>>2716257What's a good town/city in Ohio with low crime by a river or noth lake? I fell in love with the architecture of a southern Ohio river city I passed through. I was so sad when I found out later that under it's beauty it was a crime ridden shithole. It seems like the South has crime, the north has human trafficking, I feel stuck in the middle of Ohio since it's the only place that's not a shithole.
>>2716261I too enjoy architecture. I wonder when these homes date to. My guess would be 1860-1880 but I'm not sure.
>>2716261athens or youngstown
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>>2716257Flooders often return to the scene of their crimes to delight in dark joyful glee at their handiwork.Why did you take these pics, Anon?
>>2716312I enjoy fast flowing waterways. Perhaps others here have pictures they have taken of similar waterways that they could share.
A river doesn't have any banks in the sense that they can be overflowed. That is a man made concept, the idea that a river belongs in it's unflooded state and a flood event is a disobedience outside of it's normal behavior. The flooder river it's it's true state, where the most change is made, the most water is and land is moved. Based thread btw
>living next to rivers, not lakesRookie mistake
>>2716451That's a swamp
>>2716589to be fair the ohio river valley is the remnants an ancient glacial floodplain
>>2716257A lot of pollution is getting into that river.
>>2716795Your mind is infected.
>>2716257pls tell me louisville is btfo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River_flood_of_1937
>>2716263I don't know about those but a lot of towns have buildings that are meant to look old but aren't even that old. I've seen towns with buildings like that but they were actually built in the 1940s.
>>2716257Ohio is a place not a meme? Deadass thought it was a meme reference to something.
>>2716952The Ohio river valley was settled in the 1700/1800s and many of the original towns and structures remain
>>2716952These are restored historical homes built in the 1800s. Sometimes they do tours despite people actually living there.
>>2717035>Sometimes they do toursthat sounds nice I would like to go back sometime and see the interiors
>>2716952the 1940s were 80 years ago anonand the 1940s were 80 years away from the literal wild west frontier with cowboys and indians, to give you a little sense of how much shit can change in that period of time
>>2717266I might be wrong but some of those houses I saw I think predate the 1880s and possibly as early as the 1840s and 1850s. The Ohio River was settled prior to the Civil War.
I started with 2 O's, just like Ohio.
>>2716257It didn't. People just built in a 100 year flood plane and were shocked when it actually flooded.People that live right next to moving water are idiots.
>>2717267There used to be way more wetlands.They completly fucked all the ground water in the mid west when they drained the great black swamp (which I doubt most people who live in ohio have even heard of) and genocided hundreds of millions of beavers.
>>2717543tell me more about the great black swamp
>>2717550The entire Midwest of the US used to be a loosely connected series of beaver ponds as was much of the south west and west. Pre western expansion having a beaver pond on the river was much more common than having a river with no beavers.The hundreds of millions of beavers that were eradicated to make hats and harvest their anal glands for scents and flavoring were so successful in the mid west that they had dominated one of the biggest watersheds on earth (the US Midwest) significantly improving it's soil (which is why it's still usable for farming today) as well as helping to create one of the largest swamps (now completely gone).The push to clear the midwest wetlands was two fold--first they butchered hundreds of millions of beavers and then they turned what once were massive spreads of beaver habitat into literal drainage ditches.Industrealization made it all so much more efficent and now everyone forgets that America used to be dominated by wetlands created by beavers.They were so effective at obliterating beavers that many people in California believed Beavers weren't even native to California even though the entire central valley used to be covered in wetlands and marshes.Much of what is now "arid land" in the US was made arid in reticent times by hunters and trappers.
>>2719277Yeah I don't think anyone would deny that beaver used to much more easily accessible to the average man
>>2716257Skibidi Ohio Real
>>2719289here is a beaver i saw in a ditch the other day, another one was chillin on the bank about 10 yards up there was a work in progress hut up the stream tooproud of them desu fampai, hope they bounce back
>>2719383looks like a muskrat
>>2719565Because it is. That's not a beaver.
>>2719383warms my heartDrives me bonkers people keep bulding houses and farms on flood planes than blaming beavers for their own supidity.Most ranchers and farmers are still using 1950s methods and the irony is working with beavers significantly improves agriculture if you aren't a retarded Boomer who still thinks like a 1950s industrial farmer... which is sadly most of them.
>>2719665>>2719565not the guy that posted the image.I don't have muskrats near me--I do have beavers. Thanks for the correction.
>>2719671what distinguishes a muskrat from a beaver?
>>2719928size- beavers are bigger, tail- beavers have broad flat tail for smacking the water, Beaver have webbed feet, also Beaver cut down trees and build large damns while muskrat stick to vegitation and build small nests
>>2719934I see lots of small critters in the woods and I'm often not sure exactly what they are.
>>2716287>track closedAt first I didn't get it, but then I understood.>The unincorporated community of Rosbys Rock is so-named for the boulder. The rock became famous in 1852 after the last spike was driven into the railroad there, completing the line from the the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia, from the Cheapeake Bay at Baltimore, Maryland.
>>2717543I wish we had more nature for how big this country is but instead of working with and building around nature like humans we paved absolutely everything we could and dominated or flattened the rest. My local woods aren't even supposed to be thereI don't think we're as good for/out/ as people say
>>2717542Facts
>>2719277That's depressing.
>>2720426The eradication of the old growth is just as sad. The entire west coast of america used to be covered with 600 to 1000 year old trees and they cut down almost all of them... which is why it's hard to find trees older than 300 years old even in national parks even though they used to be ubiquitus.It was a massive slash and burn that went on for almost 100 years before some of the forests were turned over to the NPS and the rest was handed to DNR (which they still wont' allow old growth in most of their properties and lie like bastards about everything forestry related)
>>2716257Is that the one that caught on fire?
>>2720531Aight no more blackpills.
>>2716257BASED. POWER TO THE RIVERS
>>2721132no, that's the cuyahoga river
at least this is a thread not about consoominganyone have any good photos of big rivers they have taken?
>>2717543>>2719277The draining of the Great Black Swamp had nothing to do with killing beavers. Rather, it was logging and the implementation of drainage systems. Your rant is just schizo nonsense.
>>2716257looks nice. how's life in rural america bros? can you live your life without seeing a single nigger?
>>2722027The Ohio River is loaded with em, son
>>2719277>reticent timesIs this a standard term in the English language?
>>2716257Whoops!
>>2722048It's a typo for "recent"
