Posted by seeninstl on Jul 11, 2008
Earlier today during a short lunch break from the hours of recording and editing this week’s episode, we walked down to the riverfront and it was nice to see that Leonor K Sullivan Blvd is now completely open to car traffic. They are even doing bike and buggy rentals down there again, and are starting up the river cruises this weekend. I love the shadow of the Gateway Arch in these photos.
Posted by seeninstl on Jul 8, 2008
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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.
Posted by seeninstl on Jun 10, 2008
Not unlike the breathtaking flooding in 1993, the mighty Mississippi is at it again. We took these photos on our morning walk today.
The river is up so high that it has overtaken the cobblestone walkable area down at the riverbank, and is even up over the stairs and into the streets. But it hasn’t overtaken Leonor K Sullivan Blvd completely yet, which is the street visible in these pictures.
Posted by seeninstl on May 1, 2008
We recently arrived in the city and have some plans to celebrate it right. There is so much going on downtown, and this blog is our way of sharing our thoughts and ideas about and involvement with St. Louis’s downtown renaissance.
Topics we are interested in and plan to write about include urban walkability as opposed to suburban unwalkability, new business and community developments downtown, upcoming community events, volunteers opportunities, social issues specific to downtown including homelessness, public education, free adult education, building demolition and construction, etc etc.
We even aim to photoblog some of the amazing and quirky sights we have seen during our morning and evening walks around the downtown area. When we are feeling adventurous, we might even chime in about developments in a couple of the nearby neighborhoods to downtown, including the Central West End, University City, and the Soulard Neighborhood. But for the most part, our ramblings focus on downtown St. Louis.
