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St. William, Price Hill fish fry
St. William is highly organized, people with tablets taking your order while in line and the cashiers on computers waiting to take your money. We went in to eat, but they were doing a booming business outside with a drive-through also, so if you want fish to go you won't wait long. It is always tough to judge the first fish fry of the season we go to because my memory from a year ago is rusty. The fish and breading were flavorful and crunchy. The fries were very good and the cole slaw was better than most. It was a less saucy style which I like.
If you can only make one fish fry this season you can do much worse than St. William.
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Bockfest parade
I don't get too many pictures of the Bockfest because I love being in the parade, but I still get a few.
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hi-tech is sexy but its low-tech that protects the city
Have you ever wondered why the city has never experienced significant flooding since the big 1937 deluge?
A barrier dam keeps the Ohio River from invading the Mill Creek Valley, the city activates it when the Ohio River hits or is expected to hit 52 feet. They pump the Mill Creek into the Ohio River to protect the Mill Creek Valley. Inside the pumphouse there are eight water pumps, each one can move a billion gallons of water a day.
Cincinnati Stormwater Management Engineer Eric Saylor says, "This was being built at the same time, roughly speaking, as Hoover Dam. But Hoover Dam wasn't ready. So they brought the pumps that were going to go to Hoover Dam to us here at barrier dam."
The barrier dam protects not only roads and businesses in the Mill Creek Valley, but also an important Metropolitan Sewer District facility. The treatment plant is the largest wastewater treatment plant in the entire Tri-state and if it couldn't treat sewage it would be an environmental disaster.
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When the river is up, getting around city parks is a beach
Currently, it seems like every person in Cincinnati has been to the riverfront taking pictures. And mixing it up with everyone snapping pictures there were hundreds of kids and dogs roaming around making waves. And of course, there were shallow people wadding in to the tops of their rain boots. But everyone had a whale of a time.
OK, joking aside I know this is a serious matter because peoples homes and businesses are flooded with no relief in sight until the end of the week. People take it for granted living and working in climate-controlled environments that we total mastery over nature. I wonder if part of what draws people down to these natural disasters is the reminder of how little control we actually have.
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Sid Saturday
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sometimes you'll have a super warm day in February
And when you do, people who have been cooped up for months want to ride bikes. And ride bikes we did. As you no doubt know, because it's been in your face for a week, the Ohio River is over flood stage. Riding across the Roebling Bridge I couldn't wrap my head around how close the water is to the bottom of the bridge, and how noisy and riotous it is.
It was a beautiful night of warm temps and high water.
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Sid Saturday
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Mardi Gras
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