“one year later,” sez the headline, meaning, one year after the f-4 that hit our county, 6 o’clock-ish: $22m in damage, 18 injured amazingly nobody killed: width = 1 mile, & it ploughed straight through 32, 170 mph winds scrambling trees, wrecking houses & businesses, barely missing a town of 100k tornadoes in kansas: you can’t blame that on global heating; . . . sure, “avg. annual kansas tornado #s have been increasing since roughly the late 80s,” but “this is likely due to increased tornado awareness & education” (reassuring), & hey only 1 dinky tornado in ks in 2020! but “tornado alley” shifted east -- is now in dixie — as the dry west expands — & the south has gotten hammered elsewhere:
damaging storms: bertha hits s.c. (2nd named storm before hurricane season); miami sets daily rainfall record (7” — in just 2 hrs); u.a.e. & dubai (dramatic flash flood rescues); assam (still raining); siberia (can’t catch a break); kenya floods death count at 285 (not as dramatic as 100k dead, unless you’re a victim or survivor) heatwaves & droughts: s.e. canada / american n.e.; records falling in nevada; siberia (of course); u.k. (driest may since 1896); e. australia (sheep flock smallest since 1905 — no fodder); n. india (117 f in punjab, 46 forest fires in uttarakhand) also n. india: swarms of locusts (storms + heatwaves + drought) in rajasthan, madhya pradesh: 124k acres of cropland destroyed so far, which sounds pretty bad for anybody who needs to eat but in this here verse-chronicle, we don’t waste time on bloodless aggregated statistics — we stick to isolated anecdotes & purely localized incidents but either way one cannot represent what is happening to this world
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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. |