Extreme Weather
Demo Watch: Another Historic Building Bites The Dust
We've been expecting this for a while, but this week the news became official: a three story brick and limestone building on the corner...
Trees Behaving Badly: Wind & Ice Edition
Louisville's urban forests are one of its greatest assets, but as we all know from the past 6 months of storms, they can also...
Wind Storm Jr. No Match For Museum Plaza
As Windstorm Jr. rolled through town last night, sending more power lines sprawling into the streets and killing electricity for almost 40,000 people, it...
Time To Say Farewell To Ice Storm 2009
Well, we said we were through with Ice Storm 2009 photos, but several BS readers wrote in to ask for more. We decided that...
Ice Storm 2009: A Tour In Photos: Part V
Here's our last installment of photos from last week's ice storm. This time we're rounding out the set with icy details and close-ups and...
Ice Storm 2009: A Tour In Photos: Part IV
Until now, we've only gone with daytime ice photos. But the night offers sparkling crystal scenes so surreal under the haze of clouds and...
Ice Storm 2009: A Tour In Photos: Part III
Statues. Louisville has a pretty decent collection of statues scattered throughout the city. Here are a few we saw last week dripping with ice.
Ice...
Ice Storm 2009: A Tour In Photos: Part II
The Highlands is always one of the worst hit areas in any storm. The destruction was widespread here, as always, but the massive grandeur...
Ice Storm 2009: A Tour In Photos: Part I
The icy devastation that descended on Louisville in the past week was, in the end, actually quite beautiful. Broken trees held in suspended animation...