This book refers to an area I lived in that was impacted by a 500 year flood. A flood that occurred 5 years prior to my arrival there. So it is from my perspective, as an outsider. The work questions why I would be so concerned with a natural disaster I didn’t ever experience. The frequency and consistency of continuing weather-related emergencies I witnessed while living in this area in the aftermath of the 500 year flood paralleled the physical and emotional remnants of that historic flood. As a post-flood resident I mostly witnessed the reconstruction of the infrastructure around the river. However, every Spring, the river was sandbagged just in case the water got too high again, every year buildings were evacuated, and the “flood proof walls” went up and then come back down. In the body of work this book is a part of I am interested in sharing this irony of rebuilding the same buildings on almost the same ground that flooded in 2008 and how these actions demonstrate the stubborn perversity of American development procedures in the face of natural disasters; disasters often brought about by climate change. Structurally this book is in a modified carousel format. The background is a combination of several three layer reduction woodcuts and hand-drawn polymer plates. The wave pop-out is hand cut from a trace monotype. All of the text is handset lead type. It exists in an edition of 12.