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Of no small importance to New Orleans, I would think

April 13, 2008

We have been getting some serious tonnage of water in our county.  Luckily, McLean county drains well, but that’s not so lucky for our neighbors downstream.  The ground is saturated, lakes are full (and I wish we could send that water to Alabama!  They really need it.)

Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, says MidWesterners have not learned “the lesson of geologic reality”.  He says levees that support an unrealistic expectation of security when building on flood plains.  I bet he doesn’t get invited to many urban developer Christmas parties but someday people will ask; “Why didn’t we listen to him?!”

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  1. EdK
    April 13, 2008 at 11:12 | #1
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    We’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday for some water today!

  2. George
    April 15, 2008 at 07:04 | #2
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    Comments are closed on this post because some spammer has found it and is getting past my spam filters. 

    @%#!! spammers!

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