DailySusan Humor Blog

MY LITTLE SLUICE COUP, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I GOT

Two news items converge:

1. Torrential rains flood Florida.

2. Western Nebraska’s Lake McConaughy may dry up in drought.

The solution is obvious. Nebraskans should take off now for Florida with trucks and pickups full of empty stock tanks and coolers, empty ag tank trucks, empty kiddie wading pools, and anything else they can think of, and take a fun, pre-harvest road trip down there to collect that excess water and bring it back up here to dump in and save Big Mac.

Or . . . .

We’re a state with a whole lot of cattle troughs. If you laid them end to end, I bet they would stretch all the way from Florida to western Nebraska. We could put the first few miles of them on books so they’d be uphill.

Then we could send the excess water from Hurricane Frances by the world’s longest sluice all the way into Nebraska’s premier lake.

It’d be a sluice coup!

Or do you think it’s an idea that won’t . . . hold water?

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Prayer request: On a serious note, Father, we lift up to You the people suffering in Florida from this latest weather onslaught. Touch people’s hearts with mega-doses of brotherly love to give big bucks to the Red Cross to help put lives back together. (Romans 12:9,10)