Good Times in Pike and Wayne Counties
Posted by Holly.
I spent the weekend at my friend Jeannette’s in Hawley, PA, where she’s living as an employee of Pike County. She’s a land use planner, so of course she knows all the fun parks/lakes/etc to visit. We cruised around Pike and Wayne Counties (Hawley is actually in Wayne County) on Saturday, visiting Shohola Lake and Falls, Masthope Mountain (home of Ski Big Bear), and the Roebling Bridge at Lackawaxen, originally a suspended aqueduct designed by John A. Roebling (most famous for the Brooklyn Bridge) that was part of the old D & H Canal, but now a one-lane bridge across the Delaware River into New York. We also went shopping in Honesdale, also in Wayne County, but that was far less interesting.
I got a nice photo and movie of the falls, and we made an interesting discovery at the lake. Apparently if you skip a stone across a frozen lake, it makes a really awesome sound.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:10 pm Using
that is a very odd sound.
December 16th, 2006 at 9:28 pm Using
More fun that I just now bothered to confirm. Jeannette and I were driving along what I believe was the Lackawaxen River, just west of the junction with the Delaware, when we noticed a wide swath of downed trees. We both said, holy shit, and she turned the car around so we could drive by again, and I could take pics. Our best guess was tornado damage from the Dec. 1st storms, and it looks like we were right. This is the best photo I could get, because I didn’t get out of the car. We just drove by slowly. There were a total of three tornadoes on the 1st in NE PA, and 5 total state wide. They are the only 5 ever recorded in Pennsylvania in December. That’s also the day that my car suffered some slight hail damage on the way to Lewisburg to buy dog food. I haven’t seen hail in years, so imagine my surprise to see it in December!
And please, remember, hail is not the same as sleet.