Sunday, June 8, 2008

My home town-Edinburg

Edinburg is known for a lot of things-The Burtons and Streevals here there, it was named after Edinburgh Scotland, close to Atterbury, etc. Now it is known as the town that broke the record for rainfall in a 24 hour period! 10.94 inches to be exact. I forget when the last record was set but I do know it wasn't in my lifetime. I went up to take some pictures. Not only have they been supersaturated with rain but a tornado went through there last week as well. My childhood did not receive any damage for which I am thankful. Now if I can just get these pictures in here.

This is the Big Blue River Dam. Usually it is nice lovely dam.

The Irwin Park has lots of memories of my childhood. Church picnics and July 4th fireworks. I found this scene in E'burg.

2 comments:

Sheila said...

Ahhhh! I know Edinburgh was hit hard by the tornadoes too. We used to live at Pleasant View so Eburg was our home for about 5 years! I remember that little park.

All are safe today. Lots of damage around our beautiful city though...

Marty said...

Wow...this is hard to believe when it is soooo dry here!!!