Boiling water in Houston (via CNN) things have been getting back to
normal: co2 emissions have bounced back: ↑ 2% in dec. from a year before, accompanied by the usual stern warnings from global big- shots; but at some point, the govt.’s are going to have to say: “you know that paris accord stuff? well, it was all bullshit. we had no intention of slowing down economic output to cut emissions. sorry!” meanwhile, weather here reminds me of weather the first week of march during my youth in memphis: spring was springing the first week in march, crocuses, etc. -- only, we are > 3˚ n. of memphis hi y’day 64 f / norm 51 & that “norm” keeps changing; can we please go back? 200 records tied or set in the plains during arctic blast — & blackouts: 390k texans under “boil orders” as of mon., state’s largest coop now gone bust (is this what they mean by “breakdown”?) appalachia inundated: “it was like a river coming through. it was washing off of mountains, it was coming, there was no stopping it. it was just awful. water going up in the houses. people up on roofs,” sez kentucky evacuee pamela gross; “we don’t do too much training on this water rescue,” firefighter eddie stacy sez; “instinct, it just kicks in. it was god, i tell you. It was god to have me in that place where i was supposed to be” to save the 5 human beings in the sinking car & god will bring the tribulation before the millennium, so we are just helping it all along elsewhere, a cafe w/a kitchen on wheels; flagstone living-room floors; ovens waist-hi; dual circuits in upstairs, downstairs: the brits are coping w/the era of flooding (expect 59% ↑ in rainfall over next 30 yrs, brits) -- except most of them, who live in “flood poverty” & can’t afford to fixer upper meanwhile the southernmost town on earth, puerto williams in tierra del fuego, recorded its highest temp ever: 79 f down there next to antarctica all of which makes me say, “where are the snows of yesteryear?” is this what they mean by “solastalgia,” this wanting the temperatures, the dry & wet, the seasons, the animals, the predictable life, the normal you had before, but don't, any more?
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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. |