When we bought our house in 2004, we were smitten with the delightful creek that runs through the rear of the back yard. It provides a constant background of gentle rushing water, and it looks lovely in its banks surrounded by wildflowers.
What we couldn’t see was the way that the creek, years and several huge storms in the future, would jump its bank upstream from us, flooding our front and back yards repeatedly, and causing major property damage to our neighbor, whose house has been flooded three or four times.
What do we do about the unavoidable?
We couldn’t predict that this sweet feature of our neighborhood would become a bug. We had no way of knowing that the weather would become a source of worry—what will this next summer thunderstorm bring? At first, I was frustrated with the me of 2004. Why did I get a house with a creek in the back? Why didn’t I ask more questions?
But there aren’t many lessons there. There’s not a lot I can glean from looking back. What’s unavoidable, what I need to think about, is the next thunderstorm, the next flood.
What is my plan now that I know that the unavoidable is coming?
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