Posted by seeninstl on Jul 4, 2008
After a bit too much partying last night at the Dueling Piano Bar and then Jack Patrick’s afterward, it was all I could do to roll out of bed and get to the Kazoo festival. The goal was 5,000 kazooers to break a world-record, but I don’t think they made it. It was held at the lot by the Feisty Bulldog, one of our favorite Laclede’s Landing watering holes which we go to often.
There was also a concert for the kazooers but I didn’t stay for it due to aforementioned hangover. I don’t know how D.J. does it because he was up early this morning for interviews for this week’s Point of Inquiry.
Posted by seeninstl on Jul 3, 2008
Last night we went to a duelling piano bar called The Big Bang in Laclede’s Landing with one of D.J.’s old friends. What a fun place! Not to mention, our friend getting accosted by an overly-affectionate drunk bachelorette was a beautiful sight. (We also did quite some drinking ourselves.) These are pictures of the performance artists that D.J. took on his iPhone. (They are Cam Brown and Steve Luhmann, and they know how to work a crowd!)
Posted by seeninstl on Jun 17, 2008
Last week when we took the pictures of the the flooding Mississippi down by the St. Louis Arch, it was so high it forced the closing of the President Casino. And now it is much higher still—we took these pictures near sunset tonight before grabbing a too-delicious dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Laclede’s Landing. The mighty Mississippi has now overtaken Leonor K Sullivan Blvd completely, and is up the first section of stairs leading up to the Arch, which is directly behind us in this first picture.
Notice the stop sign and the almost submerged trash can in these pictures. A couple weeks ago, near this stop sign you could still see the outstretched hand of the bronze statue of Lewis and Clark down on the cobble-stone walkable area nearest the river.
According to the National Weather Service, the Mississippi River in this area could get as high as 39.6 feet by 6/22 and 40.2 feet on 6/23. It is currently around 35.8 feet as of today. They say that at 40.0 feet, major flooding will begin, because at this level, the Choteau Island Levee near Granite City, which protects some 4200 acres of land, will be overtopped. But we can be somewhat grateful that even when the flood hits what they think its peak will be, which is 10 feet above flood stage, it will still be about 10 feet below where it got in 1993.
