“no amount of hunkering down
in this #alonetogether period will ward off storm systems or the chaos they rain down,” the reporter sagely opines; “hopefully we don’t have any storms or major disasters that we have to deal with right away,” the red cross man sez. that’d mean more dis- aster shelters, beds farther apart, staggered meal times; the corps is doing virtual emergency training, prepping for levee-busting rainfall, snowmelt; & there’s a lot of snow left to melt, in land already waterlogged: the james r. in s. dakota stays flooded, a yr after the last spate of torrential rains; meanwhile, in topeka ks, wed. it was hi 74 f, norm 62 fri. it was hi 38 f, norm 63 -- hopefully that change-of-season thing won’t wollop us like it did last year . . . while out west, firefighters prep for prime fire conditions, w/many colleagues sick & emergency services stressed due to the strain of c-virus florida finally locksdown, as c-virus toll mounts & state braces for another “active” hurricane season; the gov. sez he’s worried about how “the social fabric holds up” under multiple emergencies; meanwhile, dry heat ravages the peninsula: wildfire torches 3500 rental cars @ ft. myers (& if states are fighting for resources now, what’ll it be like in multi-disaster mode? kinda makes you think, don’t it?) & vanuatu already has a cat 5: 148 mph wind levels buildings; cyclone washed 28 off a ferry in the solomon islands in ukraine, not your garden- variety forest fire: this one burns near the chernobyl nuke plant, & radiation levels spike; while 1.5 m chileans live on trucked-in water (50 l./day/ family: how many hand- washings is that? once you subtract stuff like drinking); rainfall last yr ↓ 80% from previous record low in santiago & valparaiso; while 1.14 m in hunan “have difficulty accessing drinking water” during these droughty times floods & locusts add to iran’s c-virus plague; floods kill 12 in afghanistan, dis- place almost 5k in yemen; & o btw, april is national stress awareness month: celebrate! (alonetogether) but you know how a tornado can’t cross rivers or hit cities? well, the same is true of natural disasters: only one can hit you at a time, at least if you’re american: that’s why all the really bad stuff happens to somebody else in some place that’s not here
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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. |