A Stuckey's in Bagdad?
Tonight, all across the region, we are expecting record low temps...into the teens. It is the major news item of the day and it is already below freezing at 8pm. Ok, you folks in PA and other colder areas are not impressed, but here this is indeed a serious situation. People here are simply not prepared to deal with freezing temps for more than a couple of hours at a time (this includes us). According to the local news, there are dwellings that simply have no sort of heating system and there is also the matter of animals, plants, crops, etc. Certainly there are steps being taken to minimize the impact where possible, but there is a very real chance of some crops being damaged to the point of having an impact on some food prices all over the country. It has been at least four years since this region experienced anything approaching what we'll be seeing for the next couple of days...indeed it is suspected that we may see a new record.
On New Year's Day we took a drive to Missippippi for the second time since we've been located here in Florida and Deb managed to shoot a few pictures as we traveled West along Interstate 10. Along that journey, there are many large waterways to be crossed and one series of pictures shows a newly completed bridge that replaces one that was destroyed by Katrina and just to the North of the bridge is a (lower) railroad bridge that was essentially unaffected.
The Q&A items for 2007 have been completed and Vickie is hereby declared the victor! Congrats Vickie the Victor and best of luck to each of you as we begin the next series.
In the first photo above there is an arial shot of the tail end of a length of Interstate highway that is also pictured (more than once) in the following photos. Can you associate the arial shot with the ground level shot and identify the Interstate's numeric designation and location of this section of road?
Photos at the Kodak Gallery: http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=1443i1v0.16gs0f88&Uy=-livnr3&Ux=0
4 comments:
the only interstate I'm finding right near Milton and Bagdad is Route 10... however the loop exit you're showing doesn't look the same as the google map I saw. Your picture looks like it's going over water & a beach, but the google map I'm looking at makes it look more like its wooded. So I'm guessing I might be way off base?
Yes, both the arial shot and the photos we took (LAST TWO pics in the 'album' for the day) show the Interstate coming to an end with a loop over the water and beach. It is not really near Milton or Bagdad but it WAS part of the day's trip.
is it route 90?
http://www.chrisruch.com/Images/map.jpg
You've found the right spot and indeed the road that travels East and West where the Interstate ends is US 90, but the Interstate that ends in the loop that goes over the beach and the water and back again to intersect with 90 is Interstate 110...a short leg of several miles that extends South from Interstate 10 on the North side of Biloxi, Ms.
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