Channel 25 reports on the evening accident.

Third Decade notes the culverted path of Stony Brook under Jamaica Plain is well plotted out but wonders what path it now takes under Roxbury in its inexorable path to the sea (well, the Charles) - and what other brooks have gotten buried over the past couple of hundred years.

And yes, I said "inexorable path" because I like saying "inexorable path."

I was just going to go out to the store today, but then I saw Anali's calm before the storm photos and decided to detour via Stony Brook Reservation first, to see the forest before it's re-covered in snow again.

Even in the middle of winter, there's a surprising amount of color in the forest:

It was news to Charles (and, OK, me, too), that Stony Brook runs under Doyle's in JP - it being of little actual interest to pretty much anybody until the city decided to auction off the land and somebody outbid Doyle's. Charles digs up the history of the brook, specifically, the Boston Street Department's 1892 annual report, which discusses progress in controlling the brook after the Great Stony Brook Flood of 1886 by basically turning it into a sewer:

... Stony Brook, the largest of the city's watercourses, is now provided with an ample outlet, and gives little trouble. The effect of the development of its water-shed can be seen, however, in the increasing rapidity and height to which it rises now at every rain, compared to what it did eight years ago, although now its outlet is ample in size, and then it was not. ...

He adds that if one looks carefully, you can still find remnants of some of the industrial buildings built along the brook.