MOULTRIE —
At this moment, streams in our community are still swelling from rains here and to our north. Some roads washed out which proved an inconvenience and schools had to be closed for safety purposes.
On the plus side, farm ponds were filled which impacts our agricultural production. Our fields soaked in a lot of moisture for spring planting.
Now aside from that, this raging water that has filled our woods, ditches and yards in some cases, also delivered us an essay.
Anyone who drove down the Veterans Parkway from Tallokas Road toward the Highway 133 intersection probably noticed in the backwaters a sea of floating styrofoam cups and other litter.
Several people have remarked about this. The flooding washed them from roadways, ditches and parking lots and left them exposed to reveal that we are a thoughtless society. Many of us appreciate living in a sprawling farm community that each spring paints us a huge bouquet and decorates our countryside with what appears from the air as a huge quilt work pattern.
Yet there are those who take our surrounding for granted or else they simply don’t give a rip.
So the rains brought us the good, the bad and revealed to us the ugly.
Opinion
Area flooding reveals a plethora of litter in the backwaters
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Dear editor:
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