The people do everything and they always have and always will. A lot of people panic are swept away in a flood. Some don't.
My brother in law, wife, and me were shooting the Colorado River rapids on fine summer day. Now the wife can swim like a fish.
So you lie on your back in the water, I said to them go down feet first and move your hands next to your hips to keep up.
If you want to go to the left bank you tilt your feet to the right and the current pushes your body to the left.
If you want to go to the right bank you tilt your feet to left and the current will push your body to the left.
Keep your head up and steer like that away from rocks, hazards like trees and rocks, and whirlpools that will suck you down so you see where you're going. Steer to avoid that stuff.
Now we're shooting about a half a mile around a good sized bend that curved around a bar to left, which we could get out there at the end, run back up to the start and doing that all day.
When we were done hours later, we were talking and my brother in law said he had never swam before and didn't know how to swim before this and it was great! He was about 14.
You don't know to swim?
No.
I didn't know that.
Again tilt your against the current opposite to where you want to land. Relax and keep your feet up. And if a kid that does not know how to swim - don't swallow the water.
No solution is perfect but somehow humanity survived.
One time I was driving South on U S 99 past Kern county, California and the whole county was under water. The whole thing. I've seen it in other places and it happens. Life's a bitch and then you die, was what Americans used to say when I was a kid. And though I live in a desert, this last snowfall flooded my basement about a foot deep. Three times during the 24 hour period. It wasn't as deep each subsequent time. But I lost keys and couldn't get inside to move the barrel filling hose. I found my keys finally...after a rhyming prayer to St. Anthony.
I think I should learn to pray too, because I have nothing else to do anyway.
I can swim, but I fear that under such circumstances I will panic and this will play a bad joke on my good swimming skills above.
I regret I didn't hear these words as a child and that someone ever lied to me that life isn't as hard and nasty as it really is.
Not only praying for the better and the more, but also expressing gratitude for what we have. It could always be worse than it is.
Here you again 😄 Yes, today I am grateful that I have my 8557 Steem which I can power down to cover my expenses. I finally decided to do this as I don't have any other option. An entire era has ended. I'm sad, but I should be grateful, right? 🤔 And yes, apparently it could get worse. Until now I thought it couldn't.
you do, what you have to do
i hope for the best for you
Thank you! 🙏
I once thought my Dad was the meanest man as grew I saw how much he taught me and what he faced. As we age, we learn to appreciate our parents and see their struggles first hand.
I remember that. I guess I haven't heard that phrase since high school. Maybe college. Also, "Life sucks and then you die."
The worst flooding that I've seen personally was probably during Hurricane Agnes. I was a very young kid, and my grandfather rescued a chipmunk from a bridge where the water had flooded both sides, leaving the chipmunk stranded in the center. No idea how he saw it, but he stopped the car, waded out and brought it off the bridge. We kept it as a pet for a while.
Of course Katrina and Helene have been more consequential, in terms of human impact. I think the situation was the same there as the post describes in Bulgaria. People solve problems. Not governments.
When I was driving a truck I went to numerous places where the docks were dug down at a slant the water was about even with the dock top. Houston, Phoenix, and many more and you backed down into it and when you were empty the trailer would start to float because of the tires which were completely underwater.