How Dry I Am….

Last weekend, I finally bundled up and biked over to Minnehaha Falls to see just how bad an effect the 2012 drought had on it. It was reduced to just a trickle:

Compare that to how it normally looks, from about a hundred yards further away:

Much of Minnehaha Creek upstream from the falls has been reduced to a muddy trench with puddles, with at most a trickle flowing along. This is one of the wetter sections near the falls:

Again, compare that to a different view from a slightly different angle a few years ago, at sunset, a couple weeks later in the calendar year:

Nasty stuff. As much as I hate to shovel it, this is making me hope we actually get a lot of snow this winter.