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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 14:00:39 JST prettygood
   Have you ever seen a flash flood? Ever crossed a bridge that's usually 20ft above a creek suddenly covered with a foot of rushing water? Ever watched the brown rise around you so fast that it was lapping at your ankles before you even realized anything was happening? Ever tried pulling a leashed dog through that rushing water like fucking Artax in the swamp, begging him to keep moving or else he'll kill you both, because you're too stupid to let go? Ever looked down at your house standing alone on a little mound like an island in a storm at sea? It fucks with you, permanently.
   
   I've watched trees get snapped like a twig by the endless wall of water. I've wondered how those plastic bags wound up hanging from the branches of a tree far above my head. I've looked down at basketball courts where a man on an inner tube floating by could dunk a ball. There's no way to really understand what water can do until you watch it with your own eyes, and there's no way to forget it after that.
   
   Images are burned into the back of my brain of dead livestock, tree trunks, plastic sandboxes, wire chicken coops, 5gal buckets, oil jugs, and old work trucks floating towards the mouth of the river. Old folks on the roof, praying to God, baptized in a cold tan stream of sandy water.
   
   No matter what comes, it can't really compare to what I've already seen. Sink, or swim. I've seen heavier rain.
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     Will2Power (will2power@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 14:03:53 JST Will2Power

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     @prettygood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75X4bWf5fIs
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 14:04:08 JST prettygood

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     @Will2Power it takes a lot of water to wash away rednecks.
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     DS.Now (dnutzinski@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 22:21:01 JST DS.Now

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     @prettygood ENC's still prayin' for y'all out there.
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     Rez (rez@social.ultimaterez.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 22:21:57 JST Rez

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     @prettygood Never dealt with floods like that, but I’ve been adjacent to them. Been clipped by a cat 4 hurricaine, too, so I get what you mean - you can’t fully convey how powerless you feel when things like that roll through. Though using the Artax example shot straight to my heart (I haven’t seen that movie in probably 30 years and that scene still messes me up when I think about it).

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