Friday, April 3, 2009

I know my floods!

Last night everyone was passing the time having a good time. Ches and Daddy were talking about old times when someone mentioned the "Big flood" in Macon. Right night Macon is receiving a lot of rain and some place are flooding. Some years back, when I was in elementary school, there was also a flood in Macon. There was no water, bridges broke, power was out - quite an ordeal at the time. Well Ches and Daddy got to disagreeing about the actual date of the flood one says 1992 the other 1994. They go back and forth for awhile until Ches decides to ask the person on the phone. Well she (who was also in Macon at the time) said it was in 1994 and the reason she knew this was b/c her daughter has a shirt that says "I survived the flood of 1994" . Daddy was not convinced and begin to offer evidence in the form of personal testimony of how he was living in Tallahassee FL. in 1994 and the reason he moved there was because of the flood in 1992. So he asks: how could I experience the flood in Macon in 1994 if I were living in Tallahassee? After much joking at daddy's expense Ches and I begin to come up with possible scenarios as to why there was a two year discrepancy between when Daddy remembers the flood and when it "actually" happened. I would like to share those with everyone:Daddy is referring to another flood which he called "the big one" and everyone else only remembers the most recent minor floodThe flood of 92 was so bad that it has been wiped from collective memory All the towns historical records (and t shirt making operations) are incorrect - daddy has resolved to remedy this problemThere is a break in the Space time continuum (a la Back to the future) and we are actually living in an alternate future based on the same event in time.Daddy's memory is so accurate that is actually referring to the start of the flood in geological time. Because as he said "I know my floods!" All of these theories are possibilities and daddy is looking into correcting the situation right away. If anyone has any input of the flood in Macon in approx. 1992~1994 please let me know. :) We must have laughed at Daddy for an hour at his refusal to accept that the flood was in 1994. I'm still not sure he is convinced.

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