some of you may remember my professor stuff with the rubber ducky and panama canal.. water likes to be flat... except in the ocean where the bumps can be significant...so now the people in texas are getting calculations about the exact elevation of their property...--- because with the prediction of 2 to 3 feet of rain... it is not so much what your exact elevation is, but how many people are you living downhill from.. i don't know what the glaciers did to texas... but i don't think they were as effective at landscaping design as around here but all you then need is a narrow place or two and you will have water rushing thru faster than green corn goes thru the new maid.
2 to 3 feet of water here??? well these glacier formed mounds --- "eskers" --- we live in could be a problem with the little hill we live on...-- i think the fact that there isw a sizable lake across the street indicates we are downhill from alot of somwhere else. i do know that 4" of rain will flood that lake over the roads...
i also know that ADI insists we have flood plans in our accreditation manual... so i thought about it. what to do.?..
the tv tells me 2 foot of rain is coming --- and to make sure i have food and water for a week...and it also tells me that if i buy a certain machine to dehydrate food, i can prepare meals that will be good for 25 years... it starts raining ... and i slice peaches and put them in the machine. somehow those peaches aint never going to be set on my table 25 years from now--- for alot of reasons -- mostly because of the immediancy of water that is unhappy being lumped up where it currently doesn't want to be...
.advertising in general amazes me that the people who make that dehydrater use as a selling point having your family gather round a thanksgiving dinner prepared 25 years previously... ..? they are appealing to a group of people who vote???
SNL could have a field day with that one. (SNL is sat nite live for people who don't stay up past 9pm...)
back to what to do??? granted this house is on a little hill...-- probably 30 feet higher than the donkey camera area.... which if ipswich gets 3 feet of rain- that 30 feet will be insignificant, and we will be talking new orleans or worse with the water rushing about trying to find the ocean. if eh dehydratiobn of peaches is ridicoulous--- why is the ADI plans for flood not just as bad...? or worse.... because you have the ADI in some authoritative role demanding we prepare for flood...
so i wrote a protocol for flood disasters. we had to to have our accreditation renewed-- so that the veterans could get 100% coverage for service dog expenses like vet care...
this somehow illustrates a bigger problem...i am a pretty good dog trainer... and i am a terrible preparer for flood disasters.... but if i don't learn to prepare to be flooded our recipients who are vets could not get the va to pay for vet care..
so how do i approach floods???
i already have... i don't go to new orleans-- it makes me too nervous to look UP at a ship going by....
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if i lived in houston? - i would have already filled up the gas tank- loaded all eh dogs in the car and gone in search of relatives living higher up the flood scale.
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special problem........like water... manure has a way about it.... this is from janine....
I need to borrow the tractor for 24 hours - my manure pile is overtaking my backyard and the stone guy needs it to finish and repair the crappy work that he did last month. Can I borrow it until Saturday morning?
it takes about 30 minutes rto drive the tractor to her house.. abd tha t needs a car behind it...
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