Living room in Labasa, Fiji, after cyclone Ana last weekend. (Supplied: Ami Kohli, via ABC) good evening, mr. & mrs. america
& everyone at sea -- let’s go to press! item: 9 dead of avalanches in wake of winter storm orlena in 4 u.s. states . . . item: 40-vehicle pile-up on i-80 in c. iowa features “a dozen overturned & jackknifed semis,” courtesy of orleana’s little sister, winter storm peggy . . . meanwhile, back east, “it’s the storm of the century,” sez snowplow operator of 30 yrs. james carew; we say: hang on, mr. carew, we have 80 years to go -- & things could get messier . . . flash: we have just received word that morris, co., n.j. reports 35.1” of snow on the ground -- if confirmed, that snows under the previous record from 1899 . . . item: worst winter for flooding ever seen in britain, experts say impossible w/o climate change; now p.m. johnson wants to open a new coal mine in cumbria . . . flash (flood): in 18 french de- party-ments, relentless rain crashed the party yesterday, busting banks & swamping towns; while back in gay paree, “the affair of the century”: a court rules the government failed to follow the paris climate accords, ruling “ecological damage” means euros for the plaintiffs. “no more blah blah,” sez the head of greenpeace france . . . speaking of floods, botswana’s capital deluged; & more massive inundations & landslides in indonesia: sumatra, java, kalimantan, sulawesi, & on the malay peninsula; meanwhile, bolivia gets slammed: 8 dead, 30k families affected so far, over 6k losing homes, crops, property; ditto in cordillera dept., paraguay, described as “literalmente destrozada”; & as if they didn’t have trouble enough, now glaciers in the andes are melting into glacial lakes, dammed by ice that’s also melting; when it does, floodwaters rage down the valleys & over the villages . . . & this from the drought department: anatolia, morocco, western cape, madagascar, e. australia, & w. u.s. are still in it, costing jobs & lives o.k., america! & everywhere else: stay tuned . . .
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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. |