Considering Iowa got flooded in 93, I think, I must really be math impaired
not 100 years there. I will never forget the sight of two houses where I
had spent a lot of time, they went flowing down the Mississippi river.
Just
made you sick.
Yes, they need to more. There will be people who won't though. Like down
here in Shawneetown on the Ohio river. Government moved town to higher
ground back in the 40's and some still rebuild or live there in shacks.
They whine because they can't get elp but, it is their choice.
"Cory" <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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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