Man, this mess in Texas is dredging up a bunch of memories I have from 2011 that I am not eager to be having. And it's overwhelming those folks in Texas are going to have to deal with the effects of this for years and years.
Around here, most everything is put back together, roads fixed, buildings rehabbed, fences and everything else restored
- however -
one thing they cannot fix is all the dead trees on the Missouri bottoms. There are hundreds of thousands of them. Ones along roads were taken down before they fell and caused a problem, but all along the Missouri, there are dead trunks and branches everywhere, north of Council Bluffs is a huge ugly swath were all the trees died and have fallen down and new gnarled growth is trying to reclaim the area. No one around here talks about it, but it's a constant reminder of our awful summer.
I don't know if the trees will die en masse in Houston, I hope not, but something like that will be evident for decades after their flooding is over, a grim reminder of all the crap they are going through now.
Around here, most everything is put back together, roads fixed, buildings rehabbed, fences and everything else restored
- however -
one thing they cannot fix is all the dead trees on the Missouri bottoms. There are hundreds of thousands of them. Ones along roads were taken down before they fell and caused a problem, but all along the Missouri, there are dead trunks and branches everywhere, north of Council Bluffs is a huge ugly swath were all the trees died and have fallen down and new gnarled growth is trying to reclaim the area. No one around here talks about it, but it's a constant reminder of our awful summer.
I don't know if the trees will die en masse in Houston, I hope not, but something like that will be evident for decades after their flooding is over, a grim reminder of all the crap they are going through now.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
