Out in the barn tonight Liz and I were discussing ways we could share this outrageous largess of water we are laboring under with our friends to the south and west. They are suffering from an interminable drought, while we are getting too much rain. Rain that is wrecking our neighbors' homes and businesses.
All day rain.
All night rain.
Sluicing, sheeting, rattling rain that is washing out all the roads that the boss just finished regrading for about the fifth time this summer. Rain that is preventing us from storing our crops or getting the cows fed properly without using up what stored feed we have.
We have way too much; they have too little.
Seems like a solvable dilemma.
However, we struggled to come up with a way to create enough wind to blow the rain clouds over hills and mountains to where they are needed.
Then Liz came up with a brilliant idea.
Politicians.
Lots and lots of politicians. Granted the rain will likely be kind of warm by the time it makes it to Florida and Montana, but there is enough hot air produced in Massachusetts alone to push the rain all the way to California. I think that if we point Kerry and Kennedy and Dean west and use everyone in the White House as a relay south, the watery unbalance that is plaguing our nation will soon be remedied.
It's worth a try.
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Brilliant idea. There must be some use for all that collective hot air that is being produced back there.
ReplyDeleteLots and lots of politicians? I think just one or two will be enough, not lots. We sure could use the moisture. The country is burning up.
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny, thanks for the laugh. I'm in Amsterda, high on a hill and if the river ever rises to my house, the valley would be gone. I have the opposite problem. I'm around a mile below Amsterdam Memorial Hospital and all that rain from above, route 30 or so drains down to the Mohawk below us. With really heav rains, we have a small stream running between our house and our neighbors. Once our clay soil is saturated it will run for days because of all the run off.
ReplyDeleteJan, thanks, we thought so too.
ReplyDeleteSarpy Sam, thanks for visiting. There are a couple who could probably do it alone, but we wanted to make sure you see.
Hi Karen, thanks. We are on a hill too, but the water still is trouble. Nothing like so many of our neighbors though, who really ahve it bad.