Minor weather-related update

I know that the news has had many reports of flooding in Missouri and the rest of the Midwest. Just wanted to say that the city of St. Louis is fine; most of the really bad flooding is either on the edges of the metropolitan area or in outlying rural areas that are generally downstream of us. The rivers are up near us, but they’re well within the capacities of levees, floodwalls, and designated wetlands. (This isn’t 1993.)

It has been super-rainy here, though that’s a good thing for the dogwoods and daffodils after last summer’s (very) minor drought.

All the attention to the river does remind me of T. S. Eliot, though, and his discussion of the river as a strong brown god. It’s an apt analogy, if you ask me.

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