I didn’t think Long Meadow Lake would flood this spring given the dry winter. These are photos and clips from when I was there in November 2023, March 2024, and now on June 25-27, 2024. The observation deck must be mostly or fully under water, and the muskrat habitats from my March video must be washed out. The water is moving fast, and what I hope was a sleeping motionless muskrat was curled up on a massive mound of brush caught on the pedestrian bridge.
muskrat buzzing about doing housework in March: • no-sun sunset at a nat...
Some photos are low quality, but they suffice to show how high the water has gotten. As of June 27, the parking lot is closed off, so people are walking in after parking farther away.
The audio is birdsong that I recorded without video beside the path to the observation deck in March 2024. It sat unused until now!
0:33 wooden observation deck
0:38 360° at the observation deck
I didn’t have a gimbal yet at this time, so it’s a bit unsteady.😁
1:28 two bridges
taken from the observation deck-the highway bridge behind the pedestrian bridge
1:32 flooded deck
The path to the observation deck is flooded.
1:42 flooded parking lot
1:54 direction of the observation deck
2:06 direction of the highway bridge
3:06 water flowing
4:15 highway/airplanes at night
4:33 full moon rising in November 2023
drone footage from 2019 flooding: • Old Cedar Bridge in #b...