... enough to be a good thing, after several weeks of getting little or none. Thankfully not in the overwhelming amount the news reports and media photos show at catastrophic levels in Texas. It has been weeks since I have felt the necessity to drag garden hoses around and drench plants in pots and things in the yard that were panting from thirst. So the heavy rains from yesterday and slow, thorough soaking water falling today that will replenish lower levels are welcome.
My question is: how could they be caught so completely unprepared? How, after the flooding of an entire city when Hurricane Katrina hit NOLA, could they not have learned any thing at all? How after the mess of Hurricane Sandy when it devastated NYC after raging up the entire eastern coast of North America could the FEMA people not make any effort to prepare for another crisis of five star proportions? How, after Hurricane Andrew blew away an entire Air Force Base in below Miami, could they be so casual about the need to evacuate personnel and valuable property?
What is going on in Washington? Ummm.... don't answer that. I just do not understand how the governmental bodies that depend on our tax money to provide support were so flagrantly, blatantly not ready with plans for monumental rainfall and widespread flooding in south Texas. They have had weather of this sort before, when Galveston on the coast, practically disappeared after a hurricane swept in from the Gulf. But that was years before sonar, radar, computer generated weather maps, satellites orbiting overhead continuously providing up-to-the-minute info. How could they possibly be so ill prepared for a natural disaster of this magnitude when they knew it was coming?
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