September flood of Wyoming Valley.
September Flood
Wednesday/09/2011 September
It has been a real anxious week. The September flood that hit my community as left all the non-levee residents hammered. Most lost everything. We had moved all our furniture to the second floor in anticipation of a record flood at forty-one feet. Fortunately our house was spared. A complete evacuation on the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania effected over sixty-five thousand residents.
I really did not feel like painting with so much disaster around us, not did I feel I should blog until everyone began the long road back to recovery.
I though of making paintings of this disaster, somehow it felt insensitive to my neighbors outside the levee. Today was the first day I felt I should blog, tomorrow maybe a painting. I usually never get an artist block, last week was enough mental anguish to stop the muse.
Tonight on the news there were several uplifting stories of flood victims digging in and beginning the process of rebuilding their homes and life. As a former flood victim of the 1972 flood, time will heal.
Everyone will have a story to tell. Like AD and BC,
I really did not feel like painting with so much disaster around us, not did I feel I should blog until everyone began the long road back to recovery.
I though of making paintings of this disaster, somehow it felt insensitive to my neighbors outside the levee. Today was the first day I felt I should blog, tomorrow maybe a painting. I usually never get an artist block, last week was enough mental anguish to stop the muse.
Tonight on the news there were several uplifting stories of flood victims digging in and beginning the process of rebuilding their homes and life. As a former flood victim of the 1972 flood, time will heal.
Everyone will have a story to tell. Like AD and BC,
history and memories will be dated before the flood or after the flood.
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