I used to live near the Montecello Dam gloryhole (AKA spillway), number 19 on this list, and once posted a photo of it online. Not too long after posting, I was contacted by an editor from the...
I used to live near the Montecello Dam gloryhole (AKA spillway), number 19 on this list, and once posted a photo of it online. Not too long after posting, I was contacted by an editor from the Ripley's Believe it or Not books and asked if they could include the photo in an upcoming book, which they did. So now somewhere around the house I have that book and get to show the kids my strangest ever "publication".
Yes. The wet and dry seasons in the Lake Berryessa watershed are so different that the lake has about a 15' (4.5m) difference in water level throughout the year. The gloryhole often sits right in...
Yes. The wet and dry seasons in the Lake Berryessa watershed are so different that the lake has about a 15' (4.5m) difference in water level throughout the year. The gloryhole often sits right in the middle of that difference, so you can often see it thunderously overflowing in the same year that you see it sticking out dry in the air several feet above the water level. It is a real spectacle.
For anyone interested in more about Lake Berryessa or its spillway, there are some good information and data here. There is a great historical water level chart on that website showing the impact of this year's rains as well as the multi-year drought that ended in 1994 with a 61' increase in water level within 7 months (sixty one feet!).
These are cool, but there's a distinct lack of space communist architecture. The Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development looks like a concrete UFO landed on...
I don't know what it is about totalitarian regimes that inspires them to build such scifi-looking statement buildings. You see some of the same stuff in North Korea's still-unfinished Ryugyong Hotel or Kazakhstan's Astana Expo Center.
I used to live near the Montecello Dam gloryhole (AKA spillway), number 19 on this list, and once posted a photo of it online. Not too long after posting, I was contacted by an editor from the Ripley's Believe it or Not books and asked if they could include the photo in an upcoming book, which they did. So now somewhere around the house I have that book and get to show the kids my strangest ever "publication".
There is a glory hole like this in a lake where I grew up also. I have never seen it overflowed, though. Does that happen much at Monticello?
Yes. The wet and dry seasons in the Lake Berryessa watershed are so different that the lake has about a 15' (4.5m) difference in water level throughout the year. The gloryhole often sits right in the middle of that difference, so you can often see it thunderously overflowing in the same year that you see it sticking out dry in the air several feet above the water level. It is a real spectacle.
For anyone interested in more about Lake Berryessa or its spillway, there are some good information and data here. There is a great historical water level chart on that website showing the impact of this year's rains as well as the multi-year drought that ended in 1994 with a 61' increase in water level within 7 months (sixty one feet!).
These are cool, but there's a distinct lack of space communist architecture. The Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development looks like a concrete UFO landed on top of a building. The photographer Frederic Chaubin has a series of photographs of many of these buildings, which were mostly built between the 1970s and the fall of the Soviet Union.
I don't know what it is about totalitarian regimes that inspires them to build such scifi-looking statement buildings. You see some of the same stuff in North Korea's still-unfinished Ryugyong Hotel or Kazakhstan's Astana Expo Center.
Glad to see the ROM make an appearance. It's one of my favorite buildings and places to go to in Toronto.