What is one to do in a typhoon?? Take a selfie duh. in lawrence f. kansas:
hi yestidiy: 85 f / norm 86 lo 63 f / norm 60 . . . normal is the new weird. weird, if you live in chad & were one of the 120k people displaced by floods last month, w/livelihoods destroyed (+ covid, cholera, malaria fears); weird, if, for instance, you live in new zealand, which experienced its warmest winter since records began (and #’s 2-10 all fell w/in the last 10 yrs.); w. australia’s warmest, too -- over 100 f in places & half the normal rain (ah, normal . . .) weird, if 2nd typhoon in 2 wks is thrashing you in korea (photos: people cleaning up busan) weird, as flood waters creep up on nuclear power plant in bangladesh weird, if you sweated through hottest-ever aug. in e. japan hottest-ever aug. in cyprus hottest-ever aug. in las vegas hottest-ever summer in tampa hottest-ever summer in chicago; weird in argentina, in multiyear drought & 22k wildfires burning as i write — 12k in parana “wetlands”; it's weird to you in california, if the 500-mi-long “blob of smoky air” sifts down to where you try to breathe, where the temps are topping 100 f & 900 fires still rage; & weird if you consider that “tropical depression #15” just became tropical storm omar -- earliest ever date for 15th named storm in the atlantic basin; & this doesn’t count the formerly- weird goings-on in the arctic -- like the blast craters in the far north prob. caused by methane buildup from thawing permafrost (kerboom); all of which means we are in kansas anymore -- & kansas weather is weird for at least today
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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. |