this #### just got real

Mar 25, 2020, 10:26 AM

So since this virus has been ramping up and more people are getting outside, the d i k e s in Clemson have been getting more crowded. ####, when I see Tony Elliot with his family out there, you know there is something going on.

Anyway, walking the dogs last night between rain storms, not many people out there, a couple of people here and there. Anyway, walk the dogs across the first d i k e and everything is cool, dogs are getting a lot of retrieving done down the hill and into the water. Walk across Old Gville Hwy and take a trail through the woods to get to the crew facility. This place is dead which is fine by me.

Me and the dogs are at the end of a dock enjoying the calmness when Clemson Univ cop car shows up. He explains to me that they are closing all Clemson facilities and I needed to leave. Real nice guy, keeps apologizing that he is running me off. I am cool with it since it is getting dark and he is not giving me any grief about the beer in my hand. He also told me that they are closing the d i k e s.

Walk back through the woods to cross Old Gville Hwy and there is a fire truck and cop car at the parking area at the end of the d i k e. I think they are repositioning the barriers that someone moved and they have ran off all the people that were parked there. I thought about trying to walk back across the d i k e but change my mind and started to head down the road on the sidewalk toward the Esso Club. Cop says, sir, sir, and calls me back. Wants to know where the #### I am going. I said I am going home and get can get there quicker if I cross the d i k e. He says no, can't do that and was just wondering if I was headed into any other restricted areas.

They can lock entryways on the end of the d i k e but not sure if they did that. You can get on the one d i k e from the overflow parking for the Esso Club but not sure how they will stop people from going that way. Maybe they will just patrol the area and run you off if they see you.

Not sure if campus is closed. I will try to walk the dogs through there but the d i k e is primo since it has access to the water.

Parks and trails are being closed I guess mainly because the amount of visitors have drastically increased and probably they are not keeping far enough park. Not sure what they are going to close next.