Toles equals * to Pharaoh

[tocqueville]

[Ediacara]

1. well...

Washington is built on a lot of reclaimed swampland, and it's only 1-10 m above sea level...

[Lars39]

2. Fogerty had the pharaoh angle covered, too:

Met myself a comin' county welfare line.
I was feelin' strung out, Hung out on the line.
Saw myself a goin', down to war in June.
All I want, All I want is to write myself a tune.

CHORUS:
Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone,
Wrote a song for truth.
Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone
And I couldn't even talk to you.

Got myself arrested, Wound me up in jail.
Richmond 'bout to blow up, Communication failed.
If you see the answer, now's the time to say.
All I want, All I want is to get you down to pray.

CHORUS

CHORUS

Saw the people standin' thousand years in chains.
Somebody said it's diff'rent now, look, it's just the same.
Pharoahs spin the message, round and round the truth.
They could have saved a million people, How can I tell you?

[greenman3610]

3. predicted in sci fi account

A rain of Biblical proportions strikes Washington, D.C. A moisture-thick weather structure, specifically a "stalled front," hangs over the city, dropping hour after hour of blinding rain -- more precipitation in a few days than the city usually sees in an entire spring. Weirdly the rain just keeps coming, as if a preview of the end of days.


Floods paralyze the region. Government leaders are forced to accept that the everlasting downpour represents the first confirmed signal of human-induced climate change.
Postscript on the Noachian rains currently pelting the nation's capital? Maybe. But what I'm describing is the plot of Forty Signs of Rain, a 2003 novel about global warming by Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the renown Blue Mars sci-fi trilogy.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregg-easterbrook/washington-deluge-foretol_b_23865.html

[eppur_se_muova]

4. This book has been much on my mind lately. I hope it gets a resurgence in

sales.