A realistic concept in divided America - We have honestly seen this before. It's about Colorado

[wandy]

11. On that I can agree.......

I'm just waiting to hear from some of those hurricane pron red states to start with how it's not their responsibility to provide aid.
I am originally from the Southern Tier of NY. Floods are more frequent but.....

1) Their is more warning. If a hurricane is turning inland you know about a few days before it gets nasty.
2) A goodly amount of flood pron areas (not all) have become State or County parks. As I said, floods are more frequent.
3) Over the years considerable effort had been put into flood control such as dams, embankments and such.

Here......

1) Who would have thought. 15+ inches of rain in less than a week. The foothills are basically a high desert. Not that flood control was not addressed. THIS is not typical.
2) This is a heck of a mess out here.

Just hoping that folk on slightly, and I do mean slightly, lower ground come out OK.