So northern Alabama's been whisked off to Oz, the heartland from Cairo to Memphis is fixing to do a pretty fair Atlantis impersonation, and Texas is on fire. Chas Clifton has been covering the drought in southeastern Colorado, including his own adventures in wildfire fighting.
What is this? Is California so broke that it can't afford to hog all the natural disasters anymore?
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California's disasters appear mostly to be man-made.
The voters and the legislature, doncha know...
Some forty years ago, my father commented, "Everything bad starts in California." Bad ideas spread eastward, all the way to WashDC.
Biblical notoriety at VFTP? Ain't that, like, the Eighth Sign or something?
Man, it is getting a little warm here, now that you mention it...
tweaker
Meh. Call me when the locusts show up, or when chocolate reverts to being a luxury reserved for the wealthy. Either way, we're boned.
We've just had snow and nearly 70 degree weather in the same week here, so pretty typical Wisconsin weather.
And I thought that now that we'd all up and elected Obama, the Earth would heal and everything. Well, shoot.
And I thought that now that we'd all up and elected Obama, the Earth would heal and everything. Well, shoot.
That's only if us evil obstructionist teabaggers stop getting in the way and let him tax the industrial revolution back to the middle ages. Or China, whichever is closer.
I had 2 days in a row WITHOUT RAIN on my street! Now we are heading back to the next wave of Monsoon. I know how Farmer Frank feels regarding the Spring Planting. Famine is an Old Testament curse, right?
Thanks for the links. California still has us all beaten on earthquakes—until the New Madrid Fault lets loose.
That is my cheery thought for the day.
Call me when the locusts show up
Just give them a little time, http://www.npr.org/2011/04/30/135867081/brood-19-cicadas-poised-to-swarm-the-south
"Is California so broke that it can't afford to hog all the natural disasters anymore? "
YES. Out legislature can't even get that right!
Ulises from CA
We haven't got anything right on the Left Coast since the gold rush.
To Memphis? The River is high all the way down to New Orleans. As in "most of the way up the levee & ships have to ballast down to get under the Huey P. Long bridge" high.
WV: tenduc, Yep. They'll be all that's left if the levees lets go...
Actually, as a (unfortunately) California resident, I really think that we could use some natual disasters of biblical proportion here. The economy picks up when you have to rebuild. Alternately, a good earthquake could rip a wide trench right through 10th and L in Sacramento and greatly improve the state government.
It's the global warming. It makes all thar snow in the winter, and when it melts. Oh wait.....
Irishdoh: The economy picks up when you have to rebuild.
I would like for you to google "Broken window fallacy". Thanks.
It's La Niña's fault. You know, the cold water current off the Pacific coast that has been exacerbated this year by "global warming", no sorry "global climate change", no that's not it, "the current global climate catastrophe." I knew I'd remember the official name for it eventually.
Joking aside, what we've seen, and what's coming next week, are pretty normal for a La Niña year. The larger pattern seems to be like those of the 1950s through the 1970s.
LittleRed1
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