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 Finally found a few minutes to process some of the shots from my trip. Waynesboro, Virginia, where I grew up in the 50's and 60's, has begun to bill itself as the River City. Not quite sure why, but the the South River, an upper tributary of the Shenandoah River (and ultimately the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay) does wind its way through the city. The river is quite shallow, so to my knowledge it never served as a major element of commerce for the city, even as a source of water power. Far too shallow to even support barge traffic and barely even for canoes and kayaks! The river is known to flood however, particularly when one the big hurricanes slips over the mountains on route north from the Gulf of Mexico or if one veers inland from the Atlantic. In those cases, this peaceful stretch of the river as it passes downtown Waynesboro swells to flood stage quite rapidly. | |
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