Touring the Blogosphere and news from the lake...

Yesterday, I checked out some other blogs on the web. It is amazing how many variations you can find. Some pages were so elaborate while others were mostly posts of pictures or one-line entries. Many were annoying because of the language or obnoxious topics, but others were quite interesting. I even bookmarked a few so that I could keep up with them. A bunch of them started out with a good idea, but for whatever reason, the blogger only posted one or two items and then nothing else. Maybe they were doing what I'm doing-taking a test run as a "blogger".

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Well, yesterday, my neighbors had an outdoor concert of some kind on their 80 acre property. I knew something was up because a lot of cars, trucks, and four-wheelers were zooming back and forth across the lake levee all day. I didn't mind the concert, because they have had some good benefit-type events there before. From my house, I could hear the music, but it was not very loud or bothersome. I did have this funny feeling that many of the concert guests were driving way too fast on the muddy levee road, especially as nightfall arrived and a bit of mist rolled over the water. My thought was, "if this keeps up, some one's gonna end up in the lake".

Sure enough, around 2 am, I hear shouts and shrieks out my window. I looked out the window to see a small car hanging precariously downward off the levee and over the water near the spillway. I don't know if the car had made a splashdown because, by then, one of the other concert goers had a truck with a winch, and a rescue was underway. They were pulling the car out of the lake.

The scene was lit by the dozen or so cars that were blocked on the dirt road behind the rescuer's truck. The exhaust fumes from the cars and the mist from the lake swirled in the lights. Back lit silhouettes of people moving all about made it look like a scene from a sci fi movie. Shouts, of "Whoa, hold up" and honks of car horns filled the air. Several folks on horseback were also helping with the rescue, and later, they were there to direct traffic. Someone from the back of the line of cars called out, "what's going on up there?"

Thankfully, within a few minutes, the car was back on the top of the levee, and it appears that no one was hurt. The crowds began to disperse. Soon all you could hear were the clip clop of the horses, the barking of hound dogs, and the voices of the riders as they rode off across the levee and into the darkness.