Tim Colby
Tim Colby
Nov 7 · 2 min read

“drivers are too smart to drive into the water in the first place”.

Yeah, I’m going with this explanation since I happen to own a minivan and also live in the MadCity. 😉

Sure enough, like many cities, Madison has a historical swamp component. Fill it in and build on it. Got a lake(?), use it as a landfill, got creeks in town(?), they make great toxic waste runover locations. Of course, we are all stuck with that legacy, we just pretend it’s not there since it’s literally buried in the past. I’d wager most newer and many older buildings built in the flat parts of the isthmus started out with permanent sub pumps, on both sides of the capitol.

I was here for the 2018 deluge, that was something, much of the west side street map was flooded for a time. Odana road looked a little like the southeast USA after a hurricane came through. We should be thankful that we are only (so far) experiencing a few 50–100 year extreme weather events in these parts, while down in Houston they have been the recipients of 500–1000 year flooding events several years in this decade, and some think we have strange weather, so far nothing on that scale.

Good to know others are trying Medium in this area, and as writers too, some of my favs on Medium are Jessica Wildfire, Kylie Gray, Steve Tomic, and duh, of course, Roz plus many many others, gives us retired folks a bit of a life.

I’m cutting this off, my Grammarly emoji keeps giving me the stinkeye! Do you suppose if I were to subscribe to Grammarly I’d get more smiley faces?

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