The Floods In The Midwest

We look at the pictures on the TV of the new floods out in the Midwest.
We feel sorry for those people going through such a natural disaster as that.
We, being Floridians, know about nature and the disaster sit can bring.
Every year we face the Hurricane Season and pray, ‘Anywhere but here, Lord’ but when it hits us like Andrew, Wilma, George and so forth, we come together and help our neighbors or we thank them for helping us. I survived Andrew down in Miami, only had one broken window, my cousin on the other hand had his house collapse on him and his family. Thank God for a strong dining room table that they were able to get under when the roof blew away.
We see these poor people in Iowa and other places and we identify with them. We feel sorry that they are losing so much. Yet, at the same time, we are also loosing.
Iowa and most of the Midwest area that we see on TV are one of the main producers of corn and soybean in this country.
Yeah, that famous corn that they want to turn into bio-fuel and not give it to the animals that we need for our diet which means that the cost of feeding those animals is doubling.
Our corn and soybean crops are going to be hurting this fall. Food prices will probably continue to go up as if we didn’t know that all ready.
What we need to ask is not, how did this happen but what are we going to do to eliminate this from happening again?
Are there things that the State’s that have been affected can do something to eliminate such flooding from destroying property again?
They call this the worse flood in five hundred years, so it has happened again, it happened in the 1990’S and now in 2008.
Look at Katrina in New Orleans it was a horrible disaster that could have been avoided.
What is being done now to avoid the disaster of the next Katrina?
We are supposed to have leadership in government, instead we have people who don’t want to rock the boat but are looking for a way to get re-elected and stay in the nice cushy jobs they have.
Wake up America!!
Something is happening in our country and we are just sitting back and letting it happen.
It’s time to ask yourself can something be done to fix this?