Call it what you will... frog choker, gully washer, the Texas floods of 2016 have arrived.
Texas goes near ten years with a drought and suddenly we've had an intense month or more of nothing but rain. I mean, if my yard was any greener, we'd have to play the Augusta golf tournament in my backyard. And I hear the same thing is happening in Paris, France and they've had to move 250,000 pieces of priceless artworks out of the Louvre Museum basement.
We don't have basements in Texas. But we do collect stuff. I have a NBA trading cards collection, from 1991-92, valued at near $4.00. Lots of shots of Dennis Rodman, Akeem Olajuwon, and Charles Barkley. Actually that estimate may be bit high. They printed too many of those cards. Nobody wants them.
So, like everybody else I've been cutting grass like a crazy man. Gotta keep the grass trimmed just to be able to make my way out of the front door.
I attribute these weird climactic events to global warming. Rush Limbaugh has assured us that this is not the case. Does Rush every step out of the radio studio into his Florida neighborhood? I've got to believe weird climactic changes are occurring in Florida, just like everywhere else.
I wonder if Zika virus has any connection to rising temperatures? I have not investigated Zika or learned much about it. I do note that we are getting more tropical diseases in Austin over the last decade.
Times are changing. Don't recall that we had much of a winter this year--
I don't see anybody making drastic changes to limit man's impact on the environment. They claim people are "getting away from cars." Everywhere I look, I see automobiles. Google is experimenting with self-driving cars in my neighborhood. Doesn't matter whose driving... cars require energy.
Everybody better put on a life preserver.
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