# Being prepared

> We're thinking about climate change in issue #279 of your weekly poetry shot

**Published by:** [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/)
**Published on:** 2026-01-16
**Categories:** poetry, tritriplicata, prepared, seine, misenseine
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/being-prepared

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Floods will come. Are you the one who has to rebuild everything, or will you be the one who just is well prepared?Growing up in a country that is for a large part below sea level gives you a certain mindset: you always have a tendency to be prepared for water flooding in. You make sure you, and people around you, learn how to swim, for example. The way your surroundings are designed make sure you never forget: dunes, dykes, locks, storm surge barriers, they are all abundantly present. Even overflow areas near rivers. With the effects of our changing climate manifesting themselves more and more seriously, being prepared is not a bad idea. Out on my runs here in France, an overflow basin for the Seine is part of my route. Well, I run around it. And on one of these runs, I found the poem above. What kind of person are you: a rebuilder or a preparer? PS: the poem above is a tritriplicata poem that is also minted as an NFT in my Mis en Seine collection. You can collect it here.SUPPORT THIS NEWSLETTER VIA BUYMEACOFFEE OR HYPERSUBArjan Tupan is writing poetry, podcasting and incubating empathyEntrepreneur, dad, European, story teller, poet. Curious, too. I tell stories on different platform and using a variety of tools. Sometimes I explain how I do stuff.Most of my content is free of charghttps://buymeacoffee.comSubscribe to Trpplr on HypersubTrpplrs are sending ripples of poetry through the world, to make it more fun. As a Trpplr, you will get: & special poetry drops from me and up-and-comin...https://hypersub.xyzPoésie de la vieOne of the ways the Dutch are prepared for flooding is the Oosterschelde stormvloedkering (storm surge barrier), explained in this video:

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