our governor sez
we still need to watch out for our weather: “the threat of this virus should not out- weigh the imminent danger of a tornado” — words of wisdom; nor should it outweigh the threat of massive spring flooding again; or super- cell t-storms, caused by a gulf of mexico 3˚ warmer than norm in fact, no pandemic should outweigh the threat of an uninhabitable earth; or even a somewhat- inhabitable earth plagued by periodic pandemics . . . & as if covid weren’t enough, karnataka faces drought again: “i don’t know what to do b/c 70% of the boreholes have dried up” — & where’s the money to come from to face two massive crises at once? meanwhile 21 dead so far in iran from floods (76 died in spring 2019), even as coronavirus hits hard; 7 in pakistan: more downpours in the n.w. (“4 members of a family were buried alive when the roof of their mud house collapsed in the small hours wed. they were asleep when the roof caved in”); > 9k houses inundated in w. java; & 20 killed by lightening strike on power lines in brazzaville drc on day 1 of lockdown or plaguey or atmospheric pretexts for fascism, as in hungary — where two days running hit record low temps, after record-warm winter (the neo-arrow-crossers will blame immigrants, no doubt) while in that oil-pumpin’ town of midland, texas, march turned out to be the wettest on record (6x normal); warmest march ever in new orleans, naples, fla.; but warmest march ever for entire country of argentina & meanwhile permafrost melts & nobody knows what godawful germs it holds in cold storage until now & where it stops nobody knows but victoria falls are falling again! and zambian reservoirs filling! (and filling and filling) as the market is falling and falling and we all wait for the all-clear to resume our regularly scheduled programming until we cannot any more again
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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. |