Marissa Nadler River of Dirt iTunes, 79p Ethereal vocals float over strummed guitars and pedal steel on this beguiling, Mazzy Star-ish single by the dream-folk singer.
Then they toiled to repair damage from the pounding river, dumping dirt where the water boiled through, sandbagging around leaks and propping up sections so saturated that the earth slid down, sometimes in sections hundreds of feet long.
At first, Mr. Chandler said, people involved in the project feared that the flood would smother the newly planted trees with sediment from the river and dirt from the levee itself.
It would take days to transport them along rivers or dirt paths to the nearest big market.
Ten homes were condemned and three more had limited access in Camarillo Springs after the storm sent rivers of dirt and rock tumbling down local hillsides and barreling through backyard fences.
The path along the river becomes a dirt trail, which would be no problem to an 11-year-old on a dirt bike, until he hits the exposed roots of a tree.
There're two ways down to the river: the hard dirt path on the other side of the pine, where the grownups go, or straight down the soft, crumbly slope.
The still-life setting is as serene as the blue-dyed river dug into the dirt, stage right.
ACCESS to the village of Dehlo from the nearest town, Mehsi, is by a ferry-barge punted across a river, and a bumpy dirt track through a thickly populated succession of villages, in one of the poorest parts of India.
The blast would crater portions of the New York skyline, barbecue thousands of people instantly, condemn thousands more to a horrible death from radiation sickness and -- by virtue of being underground -- would vaporize many tons of concrete and dirt and river water into an enduring cloud of lethal fallout.
The jolts along the red-dirt tracks, river crossings full of children splashing about (I wonder how many of them carry the worms of schistosomiasis) and short exchanges with armed men en route make it impossible to study the French grammar book open on my lap.
