One of my favorite cool things in Duluth is rushing water.
When it rains, everything of course goes downhill. No wonder our gutters are hollowed out from years of draining!
Tonight our drought was relieved by a hefty thunderstorm. Water, water everywhere - rushing at lightspeed to Lake Superior...
Down behind the Co-op, a little creek pops above ground for about the length of a house. It's between the alley and 4th Street, and between a house and a parking lot. The walls around it are high; no doubt there is a basement just feet away. When it rains this hard, Brewery Creek grows from a trickle to a torrent. I love to stop by and see the Niagara-like effect; hear the rush of water flowing down. Sometimes, the water can't be bottled back up in the receiving culvert once it escapes into the air, and 4th Street becomes glossed over with a wide running river...
About a block away, another little creek pops above ground for the length of part of a neighbor's lot. Again, with the wet, the creek rises nearly to the lawn, spilling away. Were anything to get in it's way, it'd be swept into the culvert and out to sea...
All day today at Summerblue we were damp...the paper, the tables, our clothing... I had to have the heater on in the car on the way home...
That's Duluth - waterfalls when it rains, and the heater in July...
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