Indefinitely Suspended

Due to the large amount of flooding in Iowa City and every other city near a body of water in Iowa, the home of KRUI, the Iowa Memorial Union, will be shutting down its operations indefinitely. This morning, I was amazed by how many people were at the IMU helping out with moving and sand-bagging. I glanced over one of the sand walls that had been made, and the water was eerily close. I'm talking feet away. Reports have indicated that water levels are expected to rise yet another 3 to 5 feet. I'm no mathematician, but that pits Iowa River vs. measly sand bags. Granted that the sand wall is a triangular 4ish feet tall, with about the same width, and that the Iowa River is well over 100 feet wide, and apparently ticked off enough to not have subsided yet. It almost reminds me of Ghostbusters 2, when the slime begins to take over the city. Alright, alright, the slime was a viscous orange substance with undeniably ghoul powers, BUT, the same effect is happening. In a fictional era that is used to be infested with ghosts getting hit by slime sucks, but at least they new something like that was coming, with all of the ghost foreboding. Now, in Iowa, we are faced with The Massive Flood, Part 2. Iowa is no stranger to natural disasters, so something like a flood isn't exactly out of the norm. How can we really be surprised? What is sad is how we apparently didn't learn from The Massive Flood, Part 1 (Man! If only they'd tell us there would be a sequel!). We could have shelled out 3 million dollars for a study on flood dynamics that may have actually told us something about what might happen next time. Now, we're just sitting ducks as we set up garlic and crosses to fight off our own slime. I don't know how the ghostbusters figured out that they could simply climb into the statue of liberty, fill it with slime, cue the music and BAM!, Lady Liberty comes to life and fights evil or something. Maybe with 3 million big ones we could hire a couple of high tech Hydroscientists (Hmm... if only we knew a few) to reroute the water to some place where their people can actually say they didn't see this coming. How about Illinois? There. Not our problem.