After taking hurricane related flooding
for the fifth straight season, the residents of Makepeace, MS decided
they would no longer fight the inevitable. If the universe wanted
their beloved town beneath the waves, so be it. They hired mechanics
to make their vehicles amphibious. They installed airlocks on their
homes, and those top scientists not already modifying their genetic
code for improved lung capacity and/or gills worked diligently day in
and day out to waterproof the cable TV infrastructure. When the first
major storm made landfall the following year, all the residents of
Makepeace waited in rapt anticipation. After months of planning and
waiting, Submersion Day had come. The storm was only a category one,
however, and the town only partially flooded. They were disheartened,
sure, but the American spirit is an indomitable beast, and they tuned
their waterproof televisions to the Weather Channel and waited. There
would always be another storm.
- Originally mailed to J. St. John of Picayune, Mississippi
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