…but they would certainly have prevented it ever happening. So, for that matter, might the beavers’ replacements in power, the Dutch, if they had kept charge of the middle-Atlantic watershed. They’re half beavers themselves.
“There goes the neighborhood!”
Oddly, while researching the Van Nuys saga I’ve been intensely Viewing the geography and historic watercourses and settlements along the rivers of New Netherland — the South (Delaware), the North (Hudson) and the Fresh (Connecticut). These huge watersheds — including the Schuylkill, Millstone, Mullica, Raritan – are exactly what got pounded last night, and are still underwater.
Well, fat cats hate water. Maybe subway stations underwater will finally convince some pretty powerful people in Lower Manhattan that global warming is a — oh wait, what am I saying. They’ll just helicopter onto the roofs of their skyscrapers to get to their offices tomorrow morning. They won’t even notice the harbor’s in the lobby.
The Valley Village View 