A Photo Blog: The Charlotte Seen Team works after hours producing the 2012 Charlotte Fashion Week
Charlotte Seen is hard at work producing the upcoming 2012 Charlotte Fashion Week, September 18- 22. Here’s a behind the SEENs look at the Seen Team and the stuff that keeps them going when they burn the midnight oil to make this event a sucees.
Front Of House TeamMorning CoffeeBack Of House TeamWe love Activate Water!A wallflower at the Southend Dentistry Grand OpeningDNC 2012Late Night At Denny’s……And their breakfast for 4th Meal was amazing!
For more pictures of the Seen Team and all the action behind the SEENs follow them on Instagram and Twitter@Charlotteseen#CLTFW2012 and like them on Facebook. For more information visit their website, and if you’d like to attend the shows you canpurchase tickets online.
Hurricane Issac brings extra rain to Charleston, floods the city, and makes me a little nostalgic too.
Side note: There are many different words to describe lots of rain. Read, and find out.
Charleston is flooded again! And I almost wish I was there. No, as pictures of my hometown and college campus flood my Facebook, I definitely wish I was there.
As many who don’t live there are unaware Charleston has a huge flooding problem, which in their defense, they are working to correct. However this massive drainage overhaul will take a long time as there is no quick fix. Charleston’s drainage system is affected by the sea level. If the tides are high than normal and there is excess run off water — in this case a torrential downpour — then water has nowhere to go. The storm drains quickly fill up, and the water pools in the street instead of being carried away. Conversely, when the tide recedes, what can be up to several feet of water dissipates in a few hours.
This picture of students trudging through the rain in the middle of College of Charleston’s campus made me nostalgic, especially with nicolotomi’s position disposition to the deluge. It reminded me of the first time it flooded when I lived Downtown. I lived in a great big historic Charleston-style house on the concern of two streets prone to flooding — which Charleston City Paper says police have issued a flood warning for today to motorists in that area. My porch spanned the length of my apartment. From there, I sat sheltered from the rain and watched all the cars and pedestrians size up the water before turning around.
That was after however, I threw on my Soffe shorts and frolicked in the knee-deep water like a child. Soon after my roommates and I ventured into the monsoon, everyone from the block was playing in the water and sharing the sentiment, “I can’t believe this!” Since we were all college students, it wasn’t much time before a giant sea turtle raft surfaced, complete with a smaller inner tube for several iced cans of beer. With no power and nowhere to go, I still had a blast. After the appeal of the flooded streets wore off, my roommates, a few of my neighbors and I relaxed on the porch. We talked, shared a few drinks, and played Apples to Apples until it was too dark outside.
That day is a very fond memory of college and my time in Charleston. I hope that everyone back home is making the most of the water, as I did.
Jonah Jeter from the Becket Agency took this picture of Kayakers in the Market
On a more serious note, all this rain came from somewhere, and it can be credited to Hurricane Issac. This iconic shot of a man a women kayaking down the Market seems to have been captured in the wake of a natural disaster, but Isaac is still miles off shore. Slated to make landfall in Louisiana or Mississippi tomorrow, Isaac has the potential to strike New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. My best goes out to all of those in his path. Thankfully though, experts report that it should not be nearly as damaging, since it only upgraded from tropical storm to hurricane midday today.
