tears

The ground was beginning to cool as water cascaded down the hills and into the mountain. Storm after storm had hit McKinney’s Creek bringing complete saturation of the summer baked terrain. The water rose up deep inside the cavern, often inches an hour. Coming to life she did what she did every year, just as she had for tens of thousands of years. As if filling with tears inside, the rain rushed to join the water table, bringing the flood. Still, a few diehards held high hopes that somehow, someway she would still welcome them back. But nature won, as she often does, and sadly, the many passages dug out by the loving hands of the masses flooded. Cave City’s South Lead Dig went under on December 27th, 2006 at 2:35 pm