June 19, 2008
Rain falling
Never ending
Puddles coalescing
Rivers rising
Sandbags piling
Levies bursting
Flash flooding
Police knocking
No time to grab things
Fridges floating
Phone poles drifting
Bridges collapsing
Cars tangling
Red tags* dangling
Boats rescuing
Destruction
Is too mild a word
For a FLOOD
Called FEMA
Got a shelter cot
I’m surviving
Bottled water drinking
Unwashed people stinking
But grateful to be alive
* Tags of different colors were hung on the doors of flooded houses by inspection teams. Red tags signified that the house was unsafe to enter. Hundreds of houses were marked with these red tags following the
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