In article <6bgjluF3994hbU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, spaz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I know it is horrible all over. Around here, the Wabash is two mils out
> either side of it's banks. The have lost houses where there had never
been
> floods. Places on a non flood plane so had no insurance and now
flooded. I
> hope they make the insurance companies do something or, a lot of people
will
> be in trouble.
I had to snip everything, so go climb the thread if you have trouble
remembering this, but remember that little town I told you about, Gays
Mills, that has now flooded out twice in ten months?? The general
consensus amongst townsfolk and the village trustees, after talking
things over through the last couple of days, is that they ARE going to
move the town after all. No final decision has been made yet, but they
sound pretty resolute that this is what needs to happen.
I think that it is the best thing for everyone who lives in that
immediate area.
There's an episode of THE WEST WING, which I watch quite a bit, where a
glacier in Alaska melts and floods an entire town. People are stranded,
have to be rescued, etc..
A character named Josh innocently asks, after hearing about the flooding
from the melted glacier: "Don't glaciers melt, like, once every million
years or something like that?" The person who he was asking replies,
"Yeah". In return, Josh says, "and this one decided to melt today?". I
feel EXACTLY like that right now.
Experts and local government officials, as well as local media, are
saying that this flooding that has been happening in Wisconsin, Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, and other places, is a 500 year flood. THIS kind of
catastrophic flood won't happen for another 500 years (there are also
what are called 100 year floods, too), and it's happened during OUR
lifetimes.
Figure that out for me, please, because I'm having a hard time wrapping
it around my brain.
--- Unca Cory
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