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Don't blame it on the rain

Rain. It's on all of our minds lately due to the weather conditions of the past few days, but it's effects here in Tucson are almost non-existent in comparison to the damage that has been done in Mozambique. Torrential rains fell on the African country for days before the banks of the Limpopo river were taken over by water that would eventually flood sections of the country that are greater in size than the entire state of New Jersey. The destruction caused by these flood waters has got to stop.

We have entered the 21st century and the devastating powers of floodwaters still wreak havoc and destruction on unsuspecting and innocent people across the world. Supporters of floodwaters would say that this is the single greatest characteristic of such floods. The floods themselves are color-blind. They are not prejudiced against any particular ethnicity or religious groups. Anyone and everyone can be a victim at any time. This is precisely the reason that floods are so dangerous.

If floods did have a particular target in mind, it would be far easier to defend against them. But, with the way things are now, our defense systems are minimal at best. We might as well build a wall with bags full of sand.

Why do these flood waters do what they do? They are completely unjustified in their actions. There is no reason for the pain and suffering that they inflict onto the people of this planet. There seems to be even fewer reasons for the areas that they tend to predominantly focus on.

It would be different if the floods were going after the bad elements of the societies in the world. If they attacked centers of sin like Las Vegas or Atlantic City, or places of human injustice like cities fueled by sweatshops, or even areas of human waste like Los Angeles, their plight might be understood and tolerated a little bit more. But, they don't go after such places. They go after places that are still relatively good and pure, and that's just mean.

Do flood waters do it for entertainment value? Do they take some kind of pleasure from chasing people and making them scramble up into trees and on top of cars and houses? They must or why else would they do it? Some people might say that the floods are just lonely and are chasing people because they need a little human contact. Well, I for one, am tired of this defense. It's completely ridiculous. If floods haven't learned how to make friends by now, they never will. Not on their own, anyway.

I think that it's time to institute a government-funded organization that can investigate ways to incorporate flood waters into the society at large. We've broken plenty of barriers with the mixing of different people and their different cultures, now it's time to take it a step further. And what better place to start this desegregation than the great melting pot itself, the United States of America. The stew has been a little dry lately anyway.

If this is truly going to happen, we are going to have to take a look at the source of these floods. And I don't mean rain - rain is just a insignificant middle man. I'm talking about the big man himself: God. What is this guy's problem? I cannot understand how an entity that is supposed to be all-knowing and all-powerful, cannot give these floods the love that they need. If he would just show them a little attention from time to time, they wouldn't have to rain down here on Earth with a reign of terror and trouble us for it. With irresponsible guidance like that, it's no wonder the floods are so reckless.

We can all live together. If we can live with this irresponsible God fellow, we can live with floods. Egypt has proved that it can be done with the annual flooding of the Nile. The Egyptians actually depend on that flood. If they can do it, we can do it. We need to do it.

We have come so far in the past one hundred years, but we haven't come far enough. We need to take this next step. If we don't, then who will?