Obervations On A Disaster

Wife E. and I visited our ravaged plot together today. She stared at it in silence, then said: "Water is not to be played with." We discovered more about the cause of the disaster today. According to one resident, a dam had been breached, then one-two dams below it had burst. OBSERVATION: In an earlier post, I blogged about the role of road-building in this -- and this reminds me of human predicaments: One's immediate impression may be that the problem lies here (the road), then one discovers that it more-so lies here (the dams). In this disaster, a few human influences seem to have come together to make it so much worse than it would have been without them. The photo shows where the wall of water and debris hit our fence on the south side of our plot. Here, the fence withstood the water -- most of our fence was flattened. The river seen here is a seasonal river -- the perennial river on our plot changed course through this.