A scary thought entered my head today. We've just come out on the far end of a five-day "snow storm of the quarter century" as the weathermen report it. The storm is over. The sun was shining when I got up this morning. Our thoughts are focused on the immediate...getting driveways shoveled, streets cleared, and a new supply of groceries from the store. We're pretty much happy that the storm is over...until the next one.
But today I looked ahead a bit. And it dawned on me that this widespread storm is going to cause more problems than the immediate. In a "normal" spring we experience flooding in various areas of the country. This year it is going to be worse. Spring thaw is going to have creeks roiling, dams over-topping, and flood waters rolling and threatening community after community.
That is not a happy thought to me. I hope city, county, and state governments are planning ahead. I hope they are two steps ahead of the game. Because to my way of thinking, we have some serious business ahead of us.
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4 comments:
We tend to get the flooding, being in the South. The Mississippi will be brimming, most times, but the levees are strong here.
I hear ya. Pays to be forward thinking.
Glad the Lord has it all figured out, because I sure don't.
Don't forget Judy, sometimes in Iowa we can depend on the "January thaw" to rid ourselves of some of this ahead of the Spring floods. It's been a long time since we've had one though and that doesn't take care of upstream.
Most things have a major ripple effect it seems
Oh dear, I hope people are preparing for this.
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