May 14, 2011: Floodgates Open

My screenshot from the BBC ...I think I'm glad I don't live there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13401894

That's a huge amount of land that's going to be underwater

Is it not fascinating and exciting to see water showing coming down some dry creak-bed? Or hear and see a wall of water arrive in a flash flood?

It annoys me that all this predicted flooding is occurring over and over and no one bothers to document the water's actual approach.

I think it would be gripping footage to show a huge field, or a school, or town, and this little tongue of water, a harbinger, creeping relentlessly forward to swallow it all.



There should be some time-laps shots of this happening too.

I noticed this paragraph:

The land is surely uneven. Some parts were a foot deep, some parts were a few inches, and who knows which parts they were averaging or discounting... but I don't disagree that the math requirements for a journalism degree are minimal at best.

I guess that brings up the question of how they determined it was 100 acres and 1 foot deep.

An investigative journalist would have been out there with a Gunter's chain and a theodolite.

Or they could have been approximating.

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus An investigative journalist would have been out there with a Gunter's chain and a theodolite.

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Originally Posted by Elspode ...unless it was Geraldo Rivera, in which case he would have been out there with a cheap Hawaiian shirt and a bad case of hysteria.