Flooding Threatens. Again.

Oh, my Lord. Here we go again.

I don’t see how our little community can survive massive flooding right now. We’ve taken three major hits, three years in a row.

Two years ago, a month or so before Christmas, our largest private employer closed up shop, and 600 people were laid off. One year ago, three weeks before Christmas, massive flooding put 1,000 families out of their homes and destroyed millions of dollars in property. This year, record snowfalls kept shoppers at home for the two weeks before Christmas, cutting into retail profits in a year when consumer spending was already depressed by the economy.

And now, a month later, we could be facing flooding on the scale of December 2007. Or worse.

Makes me wish I had a medieval faith, that I believed the right chants, or prayers to the right saints, could avert a disaster.

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My husband tells me the National Weather Service has predicted we have a 98 percent chance of major flooding. Ninety-eight percent. The school district is talking about closing up Thursday and Friday, and they’re already moving buses to higher ground.

Check out this map. See that clump of purple dots toward the bottom? I live in the middle of that clump. Our house is on an enormous hill, but we’re surrounded by friends who are not.