Floods

Are you worried about floods? I'm not. I have seen it before. If you have watched the local news lately you no doubt have seen stuff about the floods and mudslides of 1983. I remember them well. I was in elementary school back then. The bus I rode to school went past the mud that was constantly running down the mountain and onto Highway 89. We had to change our bus route because we couldn't go up the roads that we needed to go up. I thought it was cool that we had mudslides back then and I haven't changed much. I have always enjoyed seeing natural disasters (that is except when a lot of people are killed - or injured). It just keeps my respect for nature in check. As for people whose homes are flooded out, I kinda feel bad for them but at the same time they shouldn't have bought a house that is in a flood plain. There are a lot of areas around here that will get flooded out. There are also a lot of basements that will end up with water in them because the water table will go up so high. I do feel bad for those people because you don't have to live in a flood plain for that to happen. That is when you have to make sure you have a good sump pump to keep the water out. I look at a lot of those really expensive houses that are built up on the mountain next to the streams that come out of them and I often think to myself that one day those houses are going to either be ripped apart by an earthquake (they are built right on top of a fault line) or they are going to get washed down the mountain by a mudslide. It looks like some of them are going to get the flood this year. Personally I think it would be a good thing. I really don't like seeing all those houses up on the mountain. They should never have been built there in the first place. So if they get washed away then I will be happy. I know that is mean to say but that is just how I feel. I won't feel bad because those houses are built in the absolute worst place. It wouldn't be the first time I have seen houses slide down a hillside. I have seen several houses slowly slide down a hill into the hollow before. It happened slowly so they were able to get all their belongings out. But they still lost their houses. There are no houses there now. It is too dangerous to build there. Maybe that will happen with the houses on the mountain. They will get washed away and someone will finally say that houses can't be built there again because it is too dangerous. But I am sure that won't happen because that land is worth too much money and people are greedy and don't care about the safety of the homes they build. It is a sad world when it comes down to money over life.