Noah's Arc

I was listening to the radio on the way to work this morning. I have an attraction to this radio station for the moment. They, like everyone else, are doing what they can to raise money to help the victims of Katrina. One caller asked to have the destruction put into perspective. Would it span from E 150th to W 150th or what? In actuality, the area of the destruction is twice the size of Ohio. Now, that is hard to imagine. We have to remember that New Orleans was only one part of the problem. Mississippi and Alabama suffered great losses as well. It is difficult to think of my whole state being in trouble.

Not terribly long ago, I likened our current weather patterns to the 40 days and 40 nights of Noah's arc. Maybe I wasn't too far off. If you weren't on the arc, you suffered in one way or another. In Noah's day, he had a system. He saved two of every species. Mind you, this is not the best system, but it was organized and, according to the story, successful. Basically, in this system everything else be damned.

Somewhere in between what happened then and what happened now is what should have happened. If there ever is a next time, I hope we've found that happy medium.