well, we didn’t win the prize . . .
we thot 2020 was the worst ever, but it’s only tied for worst (worst hottest, that is) w/2016. but . . . there’s always next year! & europe gets the award for hands-down continent w/hottest-ever weather . . . but it got me to thinking: we used to get ~ 20” snow/yr, & now it’s like 13. well, madrid got 20” friday night; 1500 humans stranded in vehicles; transport halted over “large swath” of spain; 4 dead; natural gas prices soar god gave moses the rainbow sign, “no more water, the fire next time . . . aaaaand maybe some water, too”: as madrid got snowed on, costa del sol got rained on (⅕ of yearly rain in just 1 nite), water on the floor & darkness all around: “it just wouldn’t stop. it was frightening.” malaysia monsoon death toll rose to 10; 45k human evac’d last wk.; now only 32k still w/o homes; “unprecedented” rainfall washes over karnataka; 11 dead in w. java, as land- slide ripped village a- part after heavy rains; balkans swamped: tons of garbages washed into lake in serbia; homes, fields underwater; land & sea transport checked; isolated villages sans water in albania; & in fushe, kosovo, 60-yr-old muj zabeli sez: “no one is interested. you may suffer a loss here & no one wd care”; hospital parking lot in naples swallowed by sinkhole; landslide buried tracks in umbria, wch didn’t stop train from running into it; “mad floods” in casablanca, playing the usual hell w/everything; biggest floods since 1990s for namibia; 3rd largest reservoir at 118% capacity, water releases released on cornfields downstream; 4 human beings washed away for- ever while crossing flooded river or trying to; meanwhile: ½ of u.s. dried out — from “exceptional” to “moderate” drought, incl. location of your present chronicler, wch is 8.4” < normal, i.e., 40% since august) there are too many numbers. this is our problem, we’ve had too many numbers, when we need more pictures, we need stories, we need more voices, we need more time
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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. |