I love exploring parks and nature preserves and do get out quite frequently. I like taking my dogs with me and also love taking pics.
I consider myself more of an explorer than a hiker, because I am always stopping to look at things and take pictures. Sometimes I don't cover that much ground, but I sure do enjoy it. :)
Sounds like you've got a penchant for the macabre. I like it :)
I am only vaguely familiar with the Borden murders and don't know a lot about the floods but now that you mention them, I'll probably be up all night delving into them. It's been a while since I've watched "Night of the Living Dead" but I totally get the appeal.
Yeah, I have a large macabre side -- I also could have mentioned my fascination with the Texas City, Texas Disaster and the Great Hinckley Fire in Hinckley, Minnesota. (I may have spelled Hinckley wrong.)
Oh, my - - I could go on and on about the Johnstown Flood of 1889 -- the entire story has so many facets to it. The tragedy is that it need not have ever happened. A dam high up in the hills above Johnstown was neglected by rich Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania industrialists, including Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. They all had a a large resort community on the lake behind the dam.
As a child, I was always fascinated that once the dam gave away, the water took about 45 minutes to arrive in Johnstown, wiping out small communities downhill along the way. By the time it hit Johnstown the wave/s was said to be a huge mass of towering waves of mud, dirt, trees, water, bodies etc. Including barbed wire -- the flood demolished a barbed wire factory, too, along the way.
Whoa -- sorry about that. time for me to get some sleep. :)
Wow, thanks! And that Asker's Pick took me by surprise! Thanks! :)
And I can't help but adding another horrific thing about the Johnstown tragedy - - at the other end of Johnstown was a stone bridge. The mass of water/mud etc. that I mentioned in my one comment - - it all hit the bridge and all the watery mass was stopped by the bridge. And then the mass caught fire. And people were caught in the mass and were burned alive. Screams and screams. And fellow Johnstowners could obviously do very little to help them. They could only listen.
You are definitely telling the absolute truth! Even after reading and researching and watching many things about that disaster - - it still remains practically unimaginable for me.
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