If you wait until it floods, it'll be too late,

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

The saloon has a wait staff, it's for the Southern yuppies.

We wait 45 hours to rescue miners and it's too late, but the Legislature under the prodding of our governor acts in eight hours.

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,