flooding in the upper midwest --
already -- who could’ve predicted?? well . . . anybody, that’s who, seeing as how it never dried out from last year’s floods, up there & now, it’s raining again (& again) & 2 dams bust in middle michigan (just like in tajikistan t’other day), “downtown midland under 9’ of water in 12-15 hrs,” sez the gov. “go to higher ground,” sez the gov. 10k people evac’d — but ideally not to shelters, w/the virus thing & all (tho they have masks there if you need ‘em!) "to go through this in the midst of a global pandemic is almost unthinkable,” sez the gov., “but we are here.” well, actually, she’s in lansing. but the people in midland are here — that is, there. & what’s almost unthinkable = thinkable & thunk by them already. but you want unthinkable? hows about three million people evac’d? well, they are, in india + bangladesh: another big-ass cyclone w/a name; in the coastal mangrove forests where 4m people live, houses have that “run over by a bulldozer” look; “everything is destroyed” (119 mph winds; storm surge ≤ 16 ft waves up to 15 km inland), telephone poles broken like the proverbial matchsticks; quarantine facilities now storm shelters: social distance, please (good luck w/that one -- 30 m living on bangladeshi coast) . . . meanwhile, eastern europe’s worst econ crisis since fall of commies (virus) — plus a “100-yr.-drought” searing the crops, a punch to europe’s breadbasket; & chicago already had its wettest may on record (3rd wettest may in 3 yrs): 8.37” rain as of yesterday (most of it last week); heatwave in israel = power outages & people stranded in elevators (mighty hot!); & so it goes. but the bible sez leave tomorrow for tomorrow, you got enough problems today, you know, so why worry about the future til it gets here? you knoweth not the day or the hour after all
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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. |