A Thousand Words
By Jock Lauterer
OK, so I got beat. Soundly too. When I ran a photo earlier this spring of a gi-normous pothole (dubbed “Jawsâ€) out at Cole Park Plaza, I challenged Citizen readers to find a local pothole larger than my 4-by-2 beast – so large that it appeared able to swallow an Austin Mini in a single gulp. And respond you did! Intrepid pothole sleuth Ed Timberlake wins hands-down with this biggie: 1,280 feet in diameter and 320 feet deep. Oh, and the location? A U.S. Dept. of Energy testing site out in the Nevada desert. Along with his entry, Timberlake asked rhetorically, “How local is ‘local’?†(The 1kW guy has been grappling with that Rubik’s cube for his entire career.) Be that as it may, congrats, Ed, and Happy April Fools’ Day!
A THOUSAND WORDS
Do you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.
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