Swiss Flooding

Jay pointed out that while the American press seems fixated on the Guff Coast, no one gives a damn about flooding in Switzerland (where Jay resides).

First off: Most Americans think the only thing Switzerland could possibly flood with is 'questionable' money.

Second: Most Americans probably think of Switzerland as land-locked. What, a lake named for Wisconsin dairy products (Lucerne), overflowed?

Third: Most Americans, and I'm sometimes guilty of this, think of Europe as being, if anything. wealthier than we are. Surely they'd have the resources to deal with, whatever...

In summary, as an American, Swiss flooding is bad manners ont he part of the Swiss; it is also not possible given what we're taught about the ultra-civilized Swiss; and is something the Swiss could have/should have fixed with that illicit Nazi Gold.

Full disclosure: that's an intentional dig at Jay. What am I to learn from the looting of New Orleans? That Wal-Mart had it coming? That it's different to steal ham than a lawn mower? Or what, through evolution, people would somehow be better than the people who lived in Newark or Watts during their riots?

I can't cry for Wal-Mart. Or CitiBank. They'll turn a profit no matter what.

The guy stealing a TV he won't have electricity for until next quarter? His loss: while he was stealing that idiot box, somoene else was taking food, beer and other essentials. What will he have? If all TV towers are restored, 57 channels of total shit.

And yeah, Kansas is land-locked and we've had floods. I've had my own personal flood because the asshole who built my house, like the engineers who invented New Orleans, didn't believe that water always obeys the law of gravity.

I'll have too scour the 'net for some news on the Swiss floods. The last European city I remember having a deluge was Prague a couple years ago when a couple of my friends were living there. And no doubt, a Swiss food would be marked by more courteous and law-abiding flood victims. America, after all, was largely built by people who got kicked out of Europe for having bad manners.