anyhow,
let’s do the numbers: yesterday’s hi 78 f norm: 88 lo 67 norm: 63 rainfall, month to date: 9.54”, norm mtd: 3.65; & places are flooding people never saw flood before around here – even a road on top of a hill. spooky. & 2nd st is cut off once again: the pump is out of order, so the underpass fills. me, i’m just dealing w/the lake in the back yard & wondering when water will creep into the house for the first time. lotsa floods all over, in fact – streets turn into rapids, wash away cars nr madrid; torrential rain + tornado in malaga; bridge collapse in turkey; 9” in alabama on sunday; 13- year-old drowned in missouri; homes, businesses, vehicles awash in new orleans; inundated streets, sinkholes in mexico w/ 2 dead (electrocution); 5200 evac’d (mudslides) in nagasaki prefecture; 62 dead, 98 injured, 36k families affected since july in sudan i won’t go on b/c it is what it is as they say. but elsewhere, plants & creatures sizzle or burn, of course: fires still going in bolivia & brazil + 7k in angola, 3400 in d.r.c.; 400 (more) hectares incinerate in siberia; & a heatwave in chile, where it’s winter: 37 c / 99 f; 100s evac’d on samos; & “record heat & wet weather in the u.k. have created ‘perfect’ environment for fleas to thrive, leading to a huge jump in complaints.” & greta thunberg sails the atlantic to come to try to save us all, & the democrats prohibit candidates from debating an emergency that’s hurtling us backwards into the future like an asteroid headed for a planet where intelligent life once throve _______________ * It doesn't stop, so neither will I.
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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. |