With spring comes many things. Warmer temperatures, flowers, birds, oh yeah and spring flooding in the mid west.

Year after year I’m bombarded with images of homes submerged in water to their roof. People filling sandbags and crying on tv about how horrible this is.

Ok. Call me heartless here, but if I got flooded out even once. I’d be packing up and moving. There is NO WAY I’d be dealing with this year after year. Why there are so many people who still live so close to these rivers that flood like clock work, I just will never be able to wrap my head around.

Obviously I feel bad that they have their lives disrupted in this way, but if every time you walk through a door way, you hit your head on the jam, wouldn’t you learn to duck? Come on people. Use the brains god gave you! MOVE!

So anyway… a couple days back I wrote about how prison labor will be the new, cheap way to get things done. Imagine my surprise when I’m watching an associated press clip about the flooding and I see how they are using prisoners to help fill sand bags and protect towns from the rising river.

I guess I’m more in tune with what’s coming than I realized!

Today it’s sandbags and tomorrow it will be the toys your kids play with!

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