The Midwest and Louisiana now share something in common
29th November 2008
Giving thanks in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (from The Reporter, 11/27/08):
When the floods hit in June, the community responded. Hundreds of individuals volunteered to remove debris from flooded basements. Volunteers canvassed neighborhoods to make sure the needs of residents were being met. Volunteers learned how to remediate mold and then donned Tyvek suits and masks in sweltering heat to get the work done.
November 29th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
We have always shared the river in common with Wisconsin.
Neither would have thrived without the other, we without their agriculture, they without our port to profit from it.
Indeed we share a darker synchronicity in our relationships to the Corps of Engineers. We both suffer dearly from corruptly made infrastructure and its subsequent breakdown(s).
You could fit all of the details of that summer midwestern flood of ‘08 into one ward in New Orleans with room for a 2nd Line, and it wouldn’t even leave a ripple on the surface of our tragedy of ‘05.
I mean, really, I was there.
Pain is real in anybody’s vajra thimble but still… nah.
But, and a huge mfkn BUT, when you line those “coincidences” up with the Midwest floods of ‘07 and ‘93, the flood from Ike in Terrebone parish, the levee failures in Nevada ‘06(?), the water crisis of GA/AL/FL of ‘05-Now…
I’d say we all have one hellish thing in common: the Exquixotic Corps of Engineers!
November 30th, 2008 at 10:49 am
No comparison in scale, certainly, but we’re all in the same fish bowl.