The US needs to fire FEMA and hire Iowa. We know our disasters. Fire, flood, tornado, you name it. 100-year flood plus 18 inches? Fuck that noise, we know how to deal with a 500-year flood if we need to! Why? We had one 15 years ago!
Seeing the flood pictures is gut-wrenching, but from everything I've seen and heard, we all learned a lot from 1993, 1996, and 1998. The rivers are behaving worse now than they did in 1993, but the people are better equipped to handle it, and the damage is not nearly as widespread (although that is cold comfort to the towns that have been completely submerged this time around).
[You don't know me, or at least I don't think you do. I found this post linked from a comment on thewronghands's journal. I grew up in Ames, and also lived in IC for five years. Now I'm in upstate New York and wishing I could be there to help secure the university]
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Date: 2008-06-17 05:41 pm (UTC)Seeing the flood pictures is gut-wrenching, but from everything I've seen and heard, we all learned a lot from 1993, 1996, and 1998. The rivers are behaving worse now than they did in 1993, but the people are better equipped to handle it, and the damage is not nearly as widespread (although that is cold comfort to the towns that have been completely submerged this time around).
[You don't know me, or at least I don't think you do. I found this post linked from a comment on