Frozen floodwater

[Mortblanc]

Here in the U.S. we deal with extremes of weather on a regular basis. The land is big enough that when one area is stricken the others just take a ho-hum attitude, send some relief supplies and go about normal business. Hurricanes wipe out entire cities and 99% of the population does not bat and eye if it is more than 100km from them.

The government agencies have a very practical way of dealing with these things. They detirmine a problem as either an annually recurring event that must be delt with, or a "once every 100 year event" which can be ignored.

About half the time they do not wish to deal with the annual evernts, much less prepare for a "once in 100" event!

On top of that the individuals do not prepare for any emergency and strip the shelves of milk bread and eggs at every weather warning. Our grid goes down on a regular basis and no one has a reserve heat or cooking scource, or even considers what they do have as usable.

Over the years I have come to enjoy the panic and often watch the loons with no heat, no food and no clue what to do, whining on the newscast with a bit of smug self-satisfaction.