“it boils down to
illegal burning” (fla.); “people who look at this all the time are in shock. you don’t break records by as much as we broke records.” “it’s anywhere from dry to extreme in terms of fire risk.” “it could be catastrophic, depending on how dry it gets & how hot it gets. & people just have to know that our response is going to be impacted because of the covid virus. we probably won’t be able to send as many people as we had before.” (colo.) “the ones that are calling me the most, I would say 80 percent of them, have never seen water in their home. they’ve been living in these homes 20 to 30 yrs & have never seen water like this before, or they never had sump pumps because they never needed them, they never saw water come up through the floor.” (near lake michigan) “there’s a lot of people that are on edge about it. people are thinking about what do we do, how are home values affected, what are the solutions. do you raise the house, do you move? What do you do?” “634 wildfires were registered in the trans-baikal region. on the one hand, we must take human factor into account, and on the other hand, we must do a huge job ourselves, including funding of firefighting.” (siberia) "we have so far counted 65 people dead from last night's heavy rains. we urge people to leave risk areas.” (rwanda) “every time you are trying to control in one region, there is another swarm that is happening in another region & it is not possible to control them simultaneously.” (kenya) “when you add on top of it, cyclones or whatever else we’ll have in the next 2-3 months... it's an absolutely unmitigated disaster.” “footage has shown what many have called an 'apocalyptic' wall of dust and sand engulf niger's capital city, niamey. the dust storm enveloped streets & buildings across the city, turning night into day & giving the sky a 'blood red' tint.” "we've only had 13mls of rain over the whole of april. it’s just been so hot, it’s been so dry & it’s so pro- longed. i do have a little bit of silage, & a little bit of hay but that will run out at the end of this month. if things haven't changed by then, then i'm really in trouble.” (hawke’s bay, n.z.) “i’m fucking freezing my ass off, bro!” (lawrence, ks.)
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |