Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "trackback" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+trackback" bit from the end of the URL.
Floods
Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Lighton the Iowa floods:
You know another big difference between this and Katrina? In New Orleans, the official hurricane evacuation plan was "Everyone who has a car, use it to get out of town." The ones who stayed were the poor, the helpless, the stubborn, the tourists, and some emergency personnel. In Iowa, you've got the whole community and its resources.
The thread has some great comments, and links to some wonderful/horrible photos of the flooding. Also an interesting playlist.
The odd thing about the saturday photos is that it was a bright, sunny day with a blue sky, and still the water was rising. It makes for a moment of cognitive dissonance: I think movie/TV visual shorthand may tie clouds and flooding more tightly together than is really the case. And of course, in a snow-melt flood, sun would be exactly what you didn't want.
And while I'm doing current events links, John Scalzi on "Whatever" had a wonderful rant on Fox News stupidity on Thursday that has been linked far and wide. (But that doesn't make it any less wonderful.)
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