Road Slide.

Road Slide

Driving down off our mountain isn't as easy as it used to be. A slide about half way down narrows the highway to one lane. This site has been slipping for quite a while. The guardrail dropped down below the surface of the road a couple of months ago. Our local weekly newspaper quoted an Arkansas Highway Department spokesman as saying he didn't know how they were going to fix the problem since they didn't have a lot of solid ground to work with. I guess they still haven't figured out a solution. The major slide occurred over a month ago. So far, no work has been done.

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Road Slide.

Sharp Curve

Another sharp curve on the way into town. Judging from the skid marks, it looks as if a truck was having problems getting slowed down. This curve can be especially tricky in the winter because there is a bridge right in the middle of it. Sometimes that bridge is icy even when the roadway isn't.

(Trip into town ... Friday ... 6/13/08)

Sharp Curve

Heading Off The Mountain

Driving down off the mountain.

(Trip into town ... Friday ... 6/13/08)

Big, white fluffy clouds were above us for most of the day. Thunderstorms moved in around 7 PM. Lots of flashing and booming going on for a while. Telephone went out, but came back into service a few hours later. Storms had cleared our area by midnight. They became even more intense to our south. NOAA issued flash flood warnings for the counties down around Conway. We received 1.5 inches of rain total. A NOAA weather spotter in the Conway area reported 1.5 inches in 15 minutes.

Heading Off The Mountain

Gravel Meets The Blacktop

Where the county gravel road meets the state's two-lane blacktop.

Had to make a trip into town (16 miles) and stock up on supplies. Unless we have special business of some sort to attend to, we go into town every week and a half or so. Neither Jo nor I likes to make the trip, so we take turns. Both of us made the trip today because we needed to take the dogs in for their annual vaccinations.

Gravel Meets The Blacktop