Whither Floods?

(A picture I took in Lexington when the creek in front of our house flooded, 2014.)

Here's a dumb personal anecdote: a few days before we signed the paperwork for our house in Lexington, FEMA reclassified parts of our neighborhood as being in a "flood plain" - including about two or three feet of our garage.  Which meant we suddenly had to purchase flood insurance.  This irked my wife the entire time we lived there - it probably bothers her to this day.  It seems to have been a corrupt move - the flood plain was moved northward so a private clinic could be built over the previous flood plain without paying more for the land or insuring it.  No one seemed to be bothered enough to fight it, however.

We're a bit more worried about fires than flood here in Oregon.  But when I looked at the calendar a few weeks ago, I believed that Tuesday the 3rd of November 2020 would be one of the worst days in history.  I was convinced - & I say this as this is currently happening, although at the moment unsuccessfully - the current administration would find a way to steal this election.  It seemed an event on par with a natural disaster.  & of the natural disasters I could conceive of, the flood came most quickly to mind.  This is how Self Help Radio attempts to stay relevant.

The show is on tonight/Tuesday morning from midnight to 3am on 90.7 fm KBOO, online at kboo.fm.  We're not entirely sure that a terrible disaster has been averted, but please don't think of the show as a kind of summoning; instead, we hope to avert any kind of flood.  Except a flood of listeners!