St. Louis Buder Park flooded

[bill marvel]

Roger Teagarden shared this photo in his Freeflight Newsletter.  It is Buder Park in St. Louis under water.

The view is from the east side of the park looking west.  The structure in the middle of the photo is the roof of the RC pavillion.  The control line circles are in the trees in the upper left corner of the photo.  I-44 is about where the left border of the photo is.

regards,
bill marvel

[Paul Smith]

Rouge Park in Detroit is also in a flood plain.

The periodic flooding makes it impossible to build anything valuable on the land, thereby keeping it as a park.  Good for CL and and other such activiites.

[Larry Lindburg]

Bill,    Is this a recent photo?  It is good to see that you are back online.

[Peter Ferguson]

I think that is the same reason the GS Circle Burners field still exists. Friendly flooding.

[Matt Colan]

My backyard will get a puddle  right where we normally stand, but not now due to the addition of a concrete pad.  We get the puddle if we get persistant rain for a LONG time, or when the snow melts in the spring.

[bill marvel]

Bill,    Is this a recent photo?  It is good to see that you are back online.

Hi, Larry
The photo appears to be recent.  I had not seen this view before.  Roger Teagarden apparently found it on the Buder Park Flyers web page ( http://www.buderflyers.com/ ).  But, if you have seen one Buder Park flood picture, I guess you have seen it all.

Yes, thanks, I am back part time.  It is hard to believe it has been a month since the surgery.  I am feeling incredibly well.  I am sleeping better than I have for years.  I have lost 22 pounds.  I start cardiac rehab tomorrow and I can drive again.  Don't know when I will be able to fly.  I am restricted for lifting more than 8 pounds (a gallon of fuel!).

Take care,
bill marvel

[Dan McEntee]

   Hey Bill;
    Welcome back!!! Glad to hear that you are doing so well. Get some one to load up for you at home and we'll help you at the field! That Flight Streak of your can't pull more than 8 pounds in the air, can it??? Just figure a way to convince the doctors that it can actually be helpful for cardio rehab!!
   At least come out to the field and watch the rest of us play! The air and casor fumes will do you good!
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[john e. holliday]

Bill,  glad to see you are back and doing well.  A gentleman I met at my old field one day was having trouble getting his engine to start.  I asked him if I could look at it.  As usually it was not flooded, but, was dry.  When I gave engine a shot in the exhaust he said I was flooding it.  Flipped it a few times and hooked up the battery.  It started on the first flipped and evev surprised me.  Set the needle and looked at him.  Yhen I asked him if he was going to fly or just listen to it run.  Toward the end of the I could tell he was getting dizzy.  The engine quit a couple laps later and he made the most beautiful landing.

Then he told me about having heart surgury a couple months earlier.  Then I flew.  Too bad he got called to flying heaven the year after him and his brother attended a VSC.  He had an ignition set up in a plane that he was getting 1-3 flip starts.  He left us the year he was going to be at VSC.