Boy, Did I Get It Wrong
May, 2003 Duff Cast His Sci-Fi Eye to the Distant Future May, 2020 * ( Honest. That was the day the piece was first posted, and that was the predicted time. I promise I have not fudged the date. I reposted it in 2011, adding some pictures.) It was about my fixation on inter-basin water movement to save the Western States. No More Floods, No More Droughts The Prediction That Ran Amuck May 2020 The Mississippi River is approaching flood stage in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. The Corps of Engineers monitors the levees and dikes with the giant web of depth gauges and flow meters. The U.S. Weather Bureau is predicting major rainstorms in several of the watersheds. Supercomputers are crunching trillions of numbers and putting options in clear graphical displays in front of Corps decision makers. America The Beautiful ... The tale goes on about how America overcomes a looming environmental disaster. How Wrong I Was On.. . 1. We can still