Valley in Uttarakhand flooded by glacial meltwater. (Reuters via Tribune [India]) lawrence f. kansas, u.s.a.,
february 9, 2021: logbook: hi 15 f / norm 44 lo 9 f / norm 21 & that was the warmest day predicted for the week . . . health dept. workers vaccinating people in open-air fairgrounds bldg, while, as of this writing, 2:15 pm, 13 f here & 13 f in anchorage, alaska . . . wonk on, o jetstream, til i end my song . . . of winter weather advisories from abilene, tx. to baltimore in maryland; of 22 cold-weather records busted in three canadian provicnes; & code red over in nederland, trains, trams, & planes stationary; & in scotland, the bookies lower the odds on this winter proving to be the coldest ever there but snow isn’t the only precip falling: just ask the people in the 51 villages in w. kalimantan, indonesia, “submerged” by “unremitting torrential rains”; while in tangier, 24 drowned in under- ground textile sweatshop (illegal one, hidden under a house); 8 dead, 5 missing in mpumalanga, s. africa: “the man insisted he would make it but when he tried to cross, the current washed him away” & in uttarakhand, india, 150 humans still missing, 34 others trapped in a tunnel, after “ice-cold water, mud, rock & debris” came barelling down the valley, when a glacial lake’s icy “dam” gave way elsewhere, not enough water: like s. china, battered by record floods last year, hit by bitter drought, this: s. of yangtze, 50-80% ↓ in rainfall; 330k people facing water shortages; “we never lacked water in winter here before,” sez chen yun “who lives in sanmen” & athens had warmest decade ever (2010s), already 1.5 c > previous avg. & i read all this & wonder why i’m doing this -- so some digital archaeologist digs it up to understand how it all crashed, as tho’ i were some egyptian scribe describing the end of the bronze age? b/c i can’t look away from a train wreck? b/c i don’t know what the hell else to do?
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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. |