The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning, seasoned citizens!

Here's a rather amusing result of our most recent unpleasantness:
http://www.wect.com/story/39153334/firefighters-wash-dead-fish-off-stretch-of-i-40

Somehow, of all the things that might be listed in a firefighter's job description, I doubt "hosing fish off highway" would be among them. But there you are; kudos to the guy at the NCDOT who thought to call in the fire department to get the fish slick cleared away before they opened the road to traffic.

Nice to wake up Bunny morning all

 

[bruceha2000]

BC would love to see your wizbang also.

Oh my!

Actually, my suspicion is that they came from a lake or pond.

Sorry, I thought that was a given. Washed out of a river, lake or pond but the water went down while they weren't "over" a river, lake or pond. Stuck wherever the receding water left them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

But how awful a smell they would have left if nothing was done as it was they did not seem to wash them to a great distance

 

[Bunnylady]

Sorry, I thought that was a given. Washed out of a river, lake or pond but the water went down while they weren't "over" a river, lake or pond. Stuck wherever the receding water left them.

But see, the water doesn't generally rise or fall that fast in the coastal plain. A huge slug of water from a hurricane might raise the water level at the rate of inches per hour, but it would drain away at the rate of inches per day. As someone pointed out on their Facebook page, there's no dirt on the road. This wasn't the rip-and-tear of a creek roaring down a gully. This area is very flat; I can't believe the water would have been going so fast that any normal fish couldn't swim against the current.

The water those trees are reflected in is a ditch. Having driven this road many times, I can tell you, that water is deep enough to swallow a bus! There's another one just like it on the other side. That the fish are on the road rather than in the ditches is most likely because they lost the ability to swim long before the water became too shallow for them to do so. I think they got left on the road when the water receded because they were already dead.

Yes but think about how green the grass is going to be next year thanks to all that Native American fertilizer sinking into the dirt!

My thought, too - the mowing crews are going to have a lot of work in that area next year!

 

[chickadoodles]

When it get's to hot here if the catfish farmers don't get the water turning quick their fish will die off fast! When it happens they lose the entire pond full of fish.

 

[bruceha2000]

I think they got left on the road when the water receded because they were already dead.

Could be, maybe worn out from having to fight the current.

 

[microchick]

I used to catch carp out of the IL river back when I lived in Pekin and freeze them whole. Come spring, I 'd grab a bag of carp and throw one in each deep hole I dug for a tomato plant. Those 'maters loved those high nitrogen fish. I read somewhere that was what the local Indians did for fertilizer.

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[Alaskan]

But did they live up in the Augusta/Bangor area of Maine?

Let me look... my geography of that area is poor... and they moved. Silly peeps! Also, names of places changed... and states changed size.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Guess need to find exactly when and where the Brittons came across ad landed