Monday, Aug. 03, 2009

Careful You Don't Drown

It wasn't a hurricane, but the residents of Wayne, N.J., woke up to a reality just as dire: MSNBC's Michelle Kosinski paddling a canoe through floods — devastating, incapacitating floods of the Passaic River that left this idyllic suburban community submerged beneath at least ... six inches of water. A couple of dudes walking in front of the camera as Kosinski gamely paddles her way across the bounding main puts the crisis into perspective: the flooding is ankle deep. Hey, at least the passers-by weren't frolicking.