What has the flooding on Lake Ontario shown us?

1. Its not about Plan 2014. There is flooding all over the Eastern United States in lakes and rivers not effected by that plan.

2. That for years our local governments have allowed people, largely white people, to build houses, many expensive houses, in known flood zones. Hey members of my family owned cottages, but they were cottages, not houses.

3. That the City, and Town of Greece have had for years vastly inadequate water treatment plans. That is why they are flooded and dumping stuff into the lake that definitely should not be there. This has been years of governments just hoping this day would not come. They are also just pleased to pink, that they can blame their own incompetence on the Obama Administration and not on themselves. People are often dumb enough to fall for misinformation and misdirection.

4. That if involves middle class or rich white people our local media love it. If it involves others who aren’t in those groups, not so much. How many times have we seen or heard some wealthy white male complain about this.

5. That our local media does not want to talk about the real root of the problem, climate change. That local politicians, largely Republican politicians, see this as great opportunity to do photo ops. Fill a few sandbags, here, hang out with Angry white men and blame President Obama there, what an opportunity. Of course Cuomo has jumped in here to. Great opportunity for him to look like a manly man.

6. That in the end, nothing will change. People living in flood zones are like those villagers in third world countries living on the side of an active volcano, wait that includes parts of Hawaii. Ok not just third world countries. Oh yeah, there there was Mt. Saint Helena. OK, nonetheless, we all know the volcano is going to erupt, we just don’t know when. So don’t be surprised when it does.

7. They will be surprised and then they will demand the Government come in and spend millions of dollars to fix the problem for them.

8. Then those silly politicians will do their best to help those stupid wealthy white people.  Meanwhile, nah, not so much for anybody else who isn’t wealthy or white.

5/9/17

© words by Dan DeMarle 2017