NAJ (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nearlyanyjedi) wrote,@ 2008-06-15 15:44:00 |
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Probably just oversensitive about this
From the AP:
Bucolic? Really? Iowa City is bucolic? Inhabited by rustic peasant folk? "Oh please National Guard, save our little university! We're a simple people, it's all we have! If it's gone, where shall we have our idyllic harvest festivals and May-pole dances?"
Also our house is supposedly fine, it's on high ground.
From the AP:
IOWA CITY, Iowa - A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town from the surging Iowa River, which has swamped more than a dozen campus buildings and forced the evacuation Sunday of hundreds of nearby homes.
Bucolic? Really? Iowa City is bucolic? Inhabited by rustic peasant folk? "Oh please National Guard, save our little university! We're a simple people, it's all we have! If it's gone, where shall we have our idyllic harvest festivals and May-pole dances?"
Also our house is supposedly fine, it's on high ground.
