Freedom Park, where the
Nebraska Cricket Club plays is right next to the Missouri River. The cricket ground is nestled within the premises of a Naval museum. Surrounding our field are ships, planes, helicopters, and a submarine. Here's the ground during gentler times (the river flows on the other side of the various machines):
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| (C.S. Manish 2010) |
Today, the Missouri River is raging, hell-bent of reclaiming its old floodplain. Our ground is under many feet of water. (Frame of reference: you can see the top of a chain-link fence that borders the field. The fence is about 5 feet in height!).
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| (Peter Daliere 2011) |
Hopefully, the river will recede and we will get to play on Freedom Park again. Sooner rather than later.
P.S. Here's an aerial view that shows the river (as it flows south towards downtown Omaha) and the location of the ground at Freedom Park. (The photo was
taken from this site)
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| (U.S. Army Photo / Carlos J. Lazo 2011) |
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