The Great Flood

September 21, 2009

Too bad y'all aren't here! Been raining off and on all the past week. Creek's muddy. creek's up. girls would have a blast. It's running fast, at the pace of a slow jog--maybe what? 2 mi/hr?

Nothing like the great flood of 1916. Ah yes, well do I remember! Trees in the river. houses sliding off into muddy rapids. Buildings, riverbank warehouses,even an entire train were swept down stream. People ran for the hill tops. People climbed trees. People died.

Industries were swept away and never revived. It was a terrible time. The time by which every major storm is now measured.

It started with a hurricane which came swirling north from the Gulf of Mexico.
That major stormed converged with another hurricane which came west from Charleston. And it lasted for days.

Goodbye Asheville.


Now your assignment, Doctor.
Beg, borrow, or even buy Gladwell's "Outliers". Go to chapt. 8 "Rice Paddies and Math Tests", and you will find amazing revelation. It might change the way we think in numbers!

Looking forward mightily to Oct. 3!


love,

Dad

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