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But rest assured, once the aid checks are cashed and the dams are rebuilt and things return to normal, the outwardly-expressed detachment from reality will resume. It always does.
I'm sorry to hear that, I hope they're OK. Did they have flood insurance?
They do, thank you for asking. My husband has spent a couple days stripping rugs, etc off the floors and we have a crew coming in today to begin remediation. Yucky stuff. But how do you replace old belongings of parents that elderly? That's the big question. Sigh. Lucky we are all ok. We live just 20 miles from poor Wimberely. Those folks had it so much worse.
We have tornados. I've witnessed both an F5 and EF5 up close and personal. All too personal.
Disaster preparedness and disaster recovery are part and parcel of life in central OK.
We can bewail the weather, we can fight the weather.
OR we can learn to respect it. Observe and learn from it.
And primarily we can observe and learn from humankind's attempts to battle and control it.
Man vs Nature at Midlothian Dam is a educational moment about engineering.
What worked? What failed? Should the dam have been built differently? Or not at all?
I'm married to a civil engineer. I get it. But your tone of breathless excitement seems a little ghoulish right now.
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My husband has spent a couple days stripping rugs, etc off the floors and we have a crew coming in today to begin remediation. Yucky stuff. But how do you replace old belongings of parents that elderly? That's the big question. Sigh. Lucky we are all ok. We live just 20 miles from poor Wimberely. Those folks had it so much worse.
