The state's current approach to development in flood plains is a recipe for a Katrina-type disaster.

It's sunny and bright ? and it doesn't flood.

This current flood is the fifth worst flooding in the century.

[It could be argued that the Johnstown flood of 1889 wasn't a natural disaster at all, but the inevitable consequence of humans thinking they could control nature. Whatever the cause, the day after a dam burst, unleashing 20 million tons of water on the residents of Johnstown, Pa., and its neighboring boroughs, the area looked like] a vast sea of muck and rubble and filthy water, ... The Johnstown Flood.

It is great to get a win like this to start the season after last year's disaster. The team has grown up from last year.

In the event of a disaster, residents would most likely be on their own for at least 72 hours.