Governor Whitmer discusses the need for FEMA help and ensuring that people move to safe ground. She indicates that it is a 500 year flood. One has to wonder if these types of natural events would become more common. We built the dam to harness the water and without regular upgrading and maintenance we might expect this to happen from time to time. Mother nature sometimes is very fickle and overwhelms our systems. She hopes FEMA will be able to provide help more quickly. Hearts and prayers to people and their properties.
A Boundless Moment by Robert Frost He halted in the wind, and — what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to believe the most. "Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom," I said; And truly it was fair enough for flowers had we but in us to assume in march Such white luxuriance of May for ours. We stood a moment so in a strange world, Myself as one his own pretense deceives; And then I said the truth (and we moved on). A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves. The poem is one of seasons changing and the cycle of life. Each May the bloom comes out and brings life to the death of winter. The poem is about a single moment when the characters see that life has changed. The layers of meaning can be deep but on the surface it appears Robert Frost is discussing nature and its cyclical momentum. Everything in nature moves through patterns. The poem indicates that
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