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18 homes destroyed another 80 damaged; 17 injured, 3 critically; miles of mangled trees and wall-less houses (aftermath of our tornado). if your house is still there it may have fine filaments of fiber- glass coating everything inside – a yard littered with nails – the stuff you don’t think of . . . yesterday’s hi 77, “normal” hi 84 lo 61; norm 61 – wish i’d put some money on that one . . . meanwhile downtown dallas: 70 mph winds topple crane – apt. bldg. hit, 1 dead, 5 hurt, lots of cars crushed in garage n. carolina 12”+ rain this weekend more drowned farms & (rail) road closures & grain barges stalled along 200 mi. of mississippi r. mean the goods don’t get to market waters too high currents too fast (+ overflowing septic systems, toxic industrial waste meanwhile all that fresh water going into the gulf kills sea life (and fishing industry); baton rouge, cairo, natchez: longest flood ever; month’s worth of water in single day along gulf, in atlanta; flooding around great lakes; & “very long duration flooding . . . can really start to wear on people.’’ (meanwhile 88k people in s.e. china evac’d due to flooding there . . . ) elsewhere: lower rio grande already tops 100f, 120+ heat indices; 110s in arizona, s. calif. locales; pushing 90 in n. finland; 126 in the shade in kuwait; over 122 in rajasthan, where heatstroke is killing the monkeys, tigers wander into town seeking water; in c., n. india, duststorms kill 34; “in jharkhand state, a man stabbed six others after he was stopped from filling extra water barrels at a public tank” summer is ready when you are (or not) drought in s. madagascar, horn of africa, & . . . don’t read about biology b/c you will see how precarious everything is; read poetry instead
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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. |