A Sunday Afternoon Drive for Dean and Becky's Hummer Adventures

Yesterday (June12th, 2011) Becky and I decided to take a Sunday afternoon drive and see how the flooding had receded. The flood waters have gone down a tremendous amount. I took a few shots to show where they opened up the flood wall. On the opposite side of the flood wall on Levee street you can see the high water marks on the wall. The photos on this blog are mostly taken with my Canon point and shoot camera. If you want to see the good photos you will need to go to Becky's web site when it is complete. It's in the works and I imagine will be live by the end of June. We also spotted a few alligators around the levees north of Vicksburg.

This is a casino boat where it is normally dry around it. The flood wall shows where the water rose to 57.9 feet.

This is the boat launch side of the flood wall. The other side has beautiful murals depicting the history of Vicksburg.

We saw 57.9 ft. The flood of 1927 was 56.2 ft.

My Becky doing what she loves. Taking great pictures.

this was somebody's lot north of town with the crape myrtles blooming and the bird bath now above water.

Life getting back to normal in Vicksburg with the kids playing in the water at the park by the flood wall.

One of our gator friends up by the flooded levees. It appeared to be about 11 or 12 ft long. A big one.

They can be very hard to spot as most times they are only showing there head and nostrils above water.

We think this one was sleeping as he wouldn't stir when we came close.