Tropical storm Debby which hit Florida as a category 1 hurricane is dropping record rainfall across the southeastern U.S. As the eye of the storm circulated around us yesterday afternoon on 8/8/24, the rain stopped briefly allowing time for my son and me to take a bike ride for this photo op showing submerged Richardson Road at Reedy Branch Creek in the Apex Friendship area of North Carolina. We received four inches of rainfall in one day with most of the rain falling in the morning! This is the same road we previously helped to pick up trash. Much of the trash if it get into the stream would be very dangerous to wildlife. With the road block detour diverting traffic around the flooded road, we noticed many homes and farms cut off and wondered how they would be able to come and go.

So for all the people who enjoy or dislike going outdoors, driving cars, fishing, and generally surviving on this planet, can we all agree to do more to reduce trashing the roads, wasting gasoline, emitting carbon, and respect all lives found in nature?