I can’t take much more of this indecisive weather.
I fall asleep when it rains. I’ve slept until dusk before just because it was cold and rainy. If it was warm before, it’s even worse, and it’s hard to get out of bed, or focus.
After outright tornadoes destroyed several islands along the river last week, I’m not really taking this climate change thing as anything less than an apocalypse movie in real life.
For an area so dependent on outdoor tourism, farming, and forestry, we are especially vulnerable to this nonsense. We already had a major flooding in 2019 which stranded entire communities and has led to numerous Municipal flood plans and other preparations in the council meetings.
The issue with climate change is that it’s never just ‘it gets warmer’. The winters get shorter, but more intense – weather becomes turbulent more rabidly, and jumps between extremes. We’ve seen it for the last few years, and we’re seeing it now.
It’s already hard enough to get around in some places out in Whitewater – we have a lot of dirt roads and small, remote access locations for me to get lost on.
Expect more bugs, lots more bugs. Lots of stagnant water, lots of heat, lots more mosquitos breeding – which means more bites, since the females use our blood to make babies [in the “facts that make it worse” category].
In this issue, we got a letter from Brian Coughlin about Wild Parsnip – caustic plants that burn you if you get their juices on you. My dad warns me constantly to avoid them, being the paragon of caution that he is. Those invasive species will likely become even more of a threat.
We have smoke advisories; it’s already bad in the US, and since they’ve had horrendous burns all last year and the year before, I imagine more things are going to be on fire. A lot.
Perhaps it is doom and gloom – this issue certainly has a lot of that. But it is a serious issue that has to be addressed, and arguably should be done by others – but they won’t. So I suppose it comes down to finding out what we can do about it?
Other than make noise and prepare for rainy days, of course.
