Conversations from the Flood Plain
"Sixth Street always goes under first."
"Yeah, and 13th Street is last."
"Not 24th?"
"No, because it goes 6th, South Duff, 30, 24th, then 13th. Then you have to drive 40 miles north to go a mile and a half east.
Plus, don't forget Lincolnway."
"Yeah, but that's, like, a whole 'nother flood."
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"This is as much water as '93."
"Not even. It wasn't even as much water as '96. Because in '96, the horse pasture was completely underwater and that storm drain thing was shooting water straight up into the air."
"What about the canoes in the grocery store?
"That was '93."
But, really, almost no streets went under this time. Kayaks in the park and sandbagging (with mulch!) at the pizza place. Wet basements everywhere. Because that's why we build on the flood plain.
And I am so lame, I have no pictures.
Comments
Please, tell me you know the Dar Williams song with the line "Too much rain on a prairie flood plain/
Houses floating, love is like that, we built on the river"
:)
Posted by: Merrie Haskell | May 11, 2007 07:17 PM
Ha! I am a music ignoramus. But now I must look for that song because it sounds exactly right.
Posted by: debco | May 12, 2007 06:46 AM