(![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
prairiedaun Mar. 27th, 2009 08:33 am)
prairiedaun Mar. 27th, 2009 08:33 am)Every spring the floodwatch in Manitoba makes me nervous. I get really anxious hearing about flooding, partly because of the connections I have in my mind to the flooding in 97 and my dad passing away, and worrying about my family south of the city.
The first 24 minutes of the evening news last night was all about the weather and the flood forcasts and the flooding north of the city and down in Fargo and Moorhead. Most of what we listened to on the way in to drop mom off at work was flood news. There is even a twitter set up to give updates for levels in Winnipeg (so I can be up to the moment with my flood anxiety?). (Also following #manitobaflood)
We're being told over and over again that we should be okay, that it isn't as bad as last time. In a switch for Manitobans, we're hoping that the weather stays cold for a while. The mantra is pretty much stay cold, don't snow and pray that the ice breaks up.
(Seriously, it's -22 with the wind right now and we're pretty okay with that, even if it is Spring.)
The first 24 minutes of the evening news last night was all about the weather and the flood forcasts and the flooding north of the city and down in Fargo and Moorhead. Most of what we listened to on the way in to drop mom off at work was flood news. There is even a twitter set up to give updates for levels in Winnipeg (so I can be up to the moment with my flood anxiety?). (Also following #manitobaflood)
We're being told over and over again that we should be okay, that it isn't as bad as last time. In a switch for Manitobans, we're hoping that the weather stays cold for a while. The mantra is pretty much stay cold, don't snow and pray that the ice breaks up.
(Seriously, it's -22 with the wind right now and we're pretty okay with that, even if it is Spring.)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
The main reason that doesn't reassure me is that I distinctly remember the last time, watching TV, being told that it wasn't as bad as 1950.
Still, whatever happens, I believe that we will all be okay. More than anything I am concerned about what sort of work lies ahead of me as someone whose job it is to preserve and protect something that might soon be underwater.