“How high’s the water, Momma?” Johnny Cash asked in 1959. And the answer was: “Five feet high and rising.”
The Albany riverfront gets a little more interesting every time the water level rises, as it is doing now because of recent rains.
It would not be winter if Bryant Park in Albany didn’t get flooded for at least a few days, sometimes for weeks.
At the risk of seeming repetitive, here’s another look from Albany’s Periwinkle Park toward Periwinkle Elementary School, taken Sunday.
The huge puddle behind Perwinkle Elementary School in Albany was being drained today, the city parks department reports.
On my first bike ride after Oregon’s mid-January ice and snowstorm, I found Bryant Way closed near the Albany city limit.
Lots of rain has the usual result
The heavy rains of the last few days had the usual results in Albany. Bryant Park was closed, and so was a section of Bryant Way near the city limits.
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