Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 16, 2019

I’m assuming the Widow Doonesbury doesn’t have a VCR.

Move up to the roof.

better go “before the levee breaks”

They still have power? Wonders will never cease!

Uh, how is the TV being powered? They’re not running electrical cords through the water!

Out in the sticks, power goes out so often that a battery powered TV is a necessity.

Gotta keep your priorities in order. Maybe you can not save everything, but you can save what is really important. Your iPhone.

No iPhones in 1993 when this strip was written. He’s using a rotary dial phone, wonder how THAT works with the flood water!

That’s what you should expect when you build in a floodplain.

I think Mike’s Mother is a fatalist. She’s gotta have her Oprah and soap operas.

Has Oprah been around that long? Not that I watch TV, mind you.

Just throw a few more sand bags on that “levee”. Maybe that will get Mom through Judge Judy.

I remember when I was a kid watching national news coverage of a flood that wiped out a rural community. The Correspondent asked a Random Citizen “What are you going to do now?”, to which Random Citizen replied “Well, I guess I’ll rebuild like my daddy and his daddy before him and his daddy before him”. How early is too early to have your first WTF moment?

who does anymore?

He electric outlets must be up near the Ceiling.

Calling the weather service. Yeah, I remember doing that…