Everywhere floods and people are worried and why shouldn’t they be what with frogs falling from the sky? Lizards, too, in some areas.

Ark prices are rising faster than the flood waters. There are shortages everywhere. Ark handymen are seldom to be found. Where they (the handymen) can be found, hourly rates are $100000 not counting materials–and beer. Most of the handymen are drunk.

A man down in Cedar Town tried to build his own ark out of old washboards, plywood, and stuff out of the kitchen junk drawer. Damn thing sank. A man down in Cave Spring built an ark out of bathtubs and duct tape. Crate got all the way south to Apachilachicola.

Mostly, it’s filed-in basements and old stills gone to ruin.

–Malcolm