Carl Hutzler's Blog

Went down to Great Falls on the Potomac River on Thursday, June 29th, which is about 20 miles West of downtown DC. We had over 11 inches of rain in the Washington DC metro area over the last 5 days or so and the water guages (and this one which looks a bit broken) predicted a peak flow at Little Falls (just upstream) sometime on Thursday. It was not as full as I experienced about 10 years ago, but it was impressive, complete with shaking ground, roaring noise, and mesmorizing motion. If we could only harness that power :-)

Videos are fairly small (shot with a cell phone), but you get the idea:
Movie1, Movie2

Still photographs show the power a wee bit better IMO:
Photos

The last week has been the most trying for me in terms of my 9+ year career at AOL. Even compared to November 2003 when spam complaints went from 4 million a day to 21 million, the last week was far more challenging.

What was so challenging?

Well it was certainly a combination of many things, but for me the single most important issue was the continued uphill struggle to try and get things accomplished became even more difficult (something I could not even believe was possible).

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I just realized that I have not posted much lately. Not good! So what have I been up to?

Well, I ran the Grand Canyon (run and walk actually). After our yearly “man hike” that I travel to Salt Lake city for, we drove another 4 hours south to the park. At 4am the adventure began from the Bright Angel Trailhead on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Down our team of five went with headlamps blazing.

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