Klingle Road is a small street in Washington, D.C., just near Macomb Street where I lived in 2012\u201313.\u00a0 By now, it has been already repaired and transformed into a walking root, but eight years ago it was out of use and even closed to motor traffic.\u00a0 The cause was that the main part of the road lies in a ravine, so that it used to be flooded by water and mud from the slopes after every heavy rain.\u00a0 At the same time there are no houses at Klingle Road itself, all the nearest buildings look to other streets.\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t been shown this street at the beginning of my stay in Washington, I would probably haven\u2019t even noticed it at all.\u00a0 The street is not too long, surrounded by nice and comfortable residential areas.\u00a0 Its eastern end leads to Washington Zoo.\u00a0 To see such a \u2018secret\u2019 small area of desolation at the heart of a big city was especially surprising.<\/p>\n

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On 26 January 2013 I finally managed to take a photo of snow in Washington.\u00a0 The previous days, it fell in the morning and melted away while I was having breakfast \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

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A stream is just crossing the road.<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are side-walks, but there are no houses at Klingle Road itself, in former times it was used almost exclusively as a motor road (and there had been a cart road here in even older times).\u00a0 Stop-water sewers (bottom right) could not save the street from periodical flooding.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The same stream, but in warm season.<\/p><\/div>\n

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View from above, from Connecticut Avenue (the bridge in the first picture).<\/p><\/div>\n

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The same place in November.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"