WATER ON THE BRAIN

Well now, aint that a hoot. I just saw a report on CNN about the massive flooding in northern Ohio. And there they were, the ducks who think they can drive their vehicles through one, two, three, four, up to seven or eight feet of water. Old Hootie says they're nuts. And I have to agree.

Man, if the water is over your shoetops, don't do it. It aint worth the risk. Unless your vehicle has an outboard motor or sails, don't do it. Don't be the next one who has to be pulled out, dead or alive, from a overflowing river or street or road or anywhere. Hey, your stupidity is showing.

It is bad enough when the water rises and gets your vehicle. How much worse when you act stupid and do it yourself. Got a death wish? Must have to do something that stupid.

How many times must a person see other people do the same thing and drown, or suffer terrible buffeting by the water, or be the object of a massive search and rescue or worse yet, recovery operation, before it begins to sink in?

And today I heard there was an electrocution when a live power line fell into the high water and killed someone who was standing nearby. Boy, howdy. People are dumb.

And people are dead. All because they refuse to accept the fact that they are not immortal. They may think, it won't happen to me. But it does. With regularity.

Would these so-called intelligent people pull their car across three lanes of oncoming high speed traffic, just knowing 'it won't happen to me?' Well---probably.

Maybe I shouldn't go on so. After all, it does cull the herd.