balmy last week,
freezing rain today; precip month to date: 1.18” norm month to date: 0.45”; typical kansas weather only moreso; but winter weather worse in kashmir: 104 dead of avalanches in pakistan’s slice (& no it’s not normal there), the latest a 10-yr-old girl: "she had suffered fractures in her skull, orbital bones & left leg; despite our best efforts died of her brain injuries," sez the doc. "i am not in my senses. we have lost almost everyone in the family - from young kids to elderly," sez the uncle, meaning 19 members in all; "we are trying our best to alleviate their sufferings," sez the govt. man & rain? you call this rain? tell it to people in s. zambia, where it’s flooding again – last year, 98% of maize (the staple) wiped out; or tell it to folks in lucknow, uttar pradesh: record jan. rainfall; or in galicia, where inundaciones cut off traffic, kept people indoors, sank sinkholes; or in japan, where flooding gets worse every year: “it’s physically impossible to deal with all ex- pectations,” sez a plant manager; “we want the ad- ministration to explain the cause of the flood & measures to be taken in the future,” sez another (good luck w/that); & fiji hosts its 2nd cyclone in 3 wks.: cyclone sarai “destroyed my house & almost left my family homeless. my daughters had to hide under their bed from the strong winds. it was a scary experience” is a scary experience & mississippi r. flooding starts up again, in mid-jan. . . . meanwhile, in the s. hemisphere: it’s hot. & dry. e.g., in southern africa (“o god he’s going to start in on africa again - pls! africa’s a basket case - we’re sick of hearing abt africa - talk abt somwhere more . . . interesting!”) in southern africa, drought leaves 45 m people, mostly women & children, facing “severe food insecurity” ⇒ lack of consistent access to enough food for an active & healthy life — i.e., “hunger crisis on a scale we've not seen before”; & 104 in central chile, & 110s in n.w. queensland; but some rain in victoria & n.s.w.! it helps containment: good news, since 99 fires still burning, 30 uncontainedly: “moment of crisis has come,” sez sir david attenborough; no shit sherlock, sez i -- come & gone, more like we want someone to explain the cause, we want them to explain it isn’t our fault, we want them to spell out the measures to be taken in the future (the future!) we want it all just to go away but they won’t & it won’t b/c they figure if you’re on the titanic, you may as well have a nice berth
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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. |