Reels, a TikTok-analog which appears uninvited on my Facebook page and throws images at me some algorithm feeding on I'd-rather-not-know-what thinks will capture my interest, has recently been showing me much footage of flooding disasters around the globe. Some of it's fake, or mislabeled, but the destructive power of water is abundantly clear as it careens over precipices, overflows riverbeds, undermines foundations and trees and hillsides, washes away cars and bridges and houses and worse...
I might be seeing some soon from the very area we spent April in in Western North Carolina, all of whose roads are de facto closed because of flooding or fallen trees from Hurricane Helene.
