“The good Lord willing and the
creek don’t rise.”
~
“The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise” is an American slang
expression implying strong intentions subject to complete frustration by
uncommon but not unforeseeable events. It presumably evokes occasional and
unpredictably extreme rainfall in Appalachia, that has historically isolated
one rural neighborhood or another temporarily inaccessible on several or many
occasions and when most folks in the mountains use this term, that is exactly
what they mean.
The cold waters of the Little
Lehigh Creek gently flow through Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an
early December day, as autumn prepares to segue into winter.
