April 27, 2016, Prescott-
One of my students wrote a mini-movie script, this morning.
The depth of his thoughts spewed forth, without warning.
As with many of his generation, the focus was on geologic change.
Earthquakes, of late, have seemed to increase in range.
He wrote of the Big One, and how it would affect Hoover Dam,
sending cascading water, down the Colorado, and into the Bill Williams.
Our town would bear a bit of overflow, perhaps,
but his first thought was that his sanity might snap.
His rescuers appeared, though, in the personages of all the girls,
who, his adolescent mind has determined, rock his world.
Change is timeless, and so is sameness.
A Sagittarian Seeker 
I love this story, Gary — but I have to admit to a little confusion. Does the Colorado run into the Bill Williams and then become a tributary of the Colorado? Doesn’t the Colorado flow to the ocean? Good for your student, incorporating his ideas on several levels into a story/script!
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I was thinking in terms of a backwash, in the event of a massive breach in the dam. The Bill Williams flows into the Colorado, somewhat south of Lake Havasu City. I would imagine such a scenario would be rather unlikely.
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OK — Let’s hope, though, that breach will never happen!
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The Hoover Dam is so huge. Seems almost impossible to construct. These days it probably wouldn’t get done. Too many people would kick and scream.
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Dams are now bones of contention in the developing world. My student’s idea is that an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or above, could breach the dam, and he’s probably right.
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I see two elements here that really are quite delightful. One is that youth are still conscious of the issues and that they are still young! Fancies are alive but the consciousness is what will move the world. They are thinking and trying to resolve! Yes!
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That is the responsibility of youth- to challenge the shopworn and the errant.
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Yes!
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😀
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🙂 🙂
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Nature acting it’s own way.
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Nature does indeed have its own rules.
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