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“I need the sea because it teaches me.” –Pablo Neruda, On the Blue Shore of Silence
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An Aries (Who Knows Some Stuff)
I do love living by the sea. I can’t imagine being an inlander.
Everything is relative. Looking at England on the globe, everyone seems close to the water to me.
So I looked it up, and it appears that no place on your island is more than seventy miles (112 km) from the sea. About an hour’s drive on an interstate here. No big deal when compared to, let’s say, the middle of the state of Nebraska in the U.S., which is around 1500 miles (approx 2400 km) from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and a little less than a 1000 (1609 km) miles from the Gulf of Mexico (the water in my photo). Cornhuskers (a nickname for Nebraskans) might envy those landlocked in Blighty!
All that aside, even though Houston is less than an hour’s drive to Galveston (on the Gulf), the lifestyles are very different in the two cities, and that’s true, too, of inland Florida and inland California, for example. So I get what you’re saying.
With all this rain we’ve been having lately, I sometimes wonder where the land is. In 2006 my job in Roanoke had me fly to their corporate HQ in Boulder, CO. I never thought that city of banks on every corner could turn into a river. The real problem is that to end the drought, the water has to get into the soil, and the burn scars are just not able to soak up the water. So, we get massive runoff. So far, we have been fortunate that the only water damage we have is a soaked garden and a small leak in the basement. So far.
My friend in Denver has a flooded basement and has lost a lot of things. I hope your situation only improves, with no further or more extensive flooding. I think this took everyone by surprise.