"It rained at my house," Kristi announced at work and she lives just outside Key West. She must be doing a rain dance because it doesn't seem to raining anywhere. 
Karl says there's a good chance of rain this next weekend which suits me as I'm working and it will keep people off the streets if we get a nice downpour. I'm tired of hearing that we need rain but it's excessively dusty and dry. It looks like the trees are dying again. 
we got a burst of greenery when it was supposed to rain a few weeks ago, and those leaves shrivelled and a second round burst forth and they are in the process of drying up too. Our drinking water is pumped from the mainland where there is a huge aquifer under Miami so as far as drinking water goes we are doing all right. There's plenty of water down here but not much of it is drinkable.
The tides were pretty high with the last full moon and we got some inundations of the mangroves but the rains are just being coy and staying away. 
I read about the tornadoes killing people across the Midwest. Danette writes about endless rain in Colorado and temperatures in the Pacific Northwest seem absurdly wintry while Alaska had a a no snow winter and people say climate change is a fantasy?
Karl says there's a good chance of rain this next weekend which suits me as I'm working and it will keep people off the streets if we get a nice downpour. I'm tired of hearing that we need rain but it's excessively dusty and dry. It looks like the trees are dying again. we got a burst of greenery when it was supposed to rain a few weeks ago, and those leaves shrivelled and a second round burst forth and they are in the process of drying up too. Our drinking water is pumped from the mainland where there is a huge aquifer under Miami so as far as drinking water goes we are doing all right. There's plenty of water down here but not much of it is drinkable.The tides were pretty high with the last full moon and we got some inundations of the mangroves but the rains are just being coy and staying away. 
I read about the tornadoes killing people across the Midwest. Danette writes about endless rain in Colorado and temperatures in the Pacific Northwest seem absurdly wintry while Alaska had a a no snow winter and people say climate change is a fantasy? 
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Storms are heat engines - the byproduct of warm and cold colliding. More heat equals more energy.
Here's hoping the current trend does not extend to us folks surrounded by ocean. While I'm not poking fun at midwesterners by any means - it does strike me as odd these are the same folks who wonder why we willingly live in an area with hurricanes.
On Guam, all structures are mandated to withstand 175 MPH winds after the islanders tired of rebuilding every few years. At the rate we're going, the Midwest will have to do the same.
Currently living in a concrete bunker,
Chuck.
Those same people also wonder how I can live in California with the earthquakes.
It's going to snow here in Montana tonight and snow and rain showers all weekend with lows in the 30s.
Lots of flooding of the Lower Yellowstone River and other rivers in Eastern Montana, unfortunately two deaths due to the flooding. Then the water works its way down the Missouri to the Mississippi where they don't need any more floods. Hope it dries out soon!
Bob from Livingston Montana
Some days it all feels too much.
We've a cool light light breeze; the sky is orangy pink sunrise. Glass smooth, the bay reflects a sublime light show.
People get monster storms here - they survive.
People get monster earthquakes and tsunamis here - they survive.
Not to make light of natural disasters, rather to note resiliency of spirit. Perhaps we're a bit overloaded with information in the hopes of selling a commercial on a news program selling a screenplay of fear.
Climate change is real. The unreality is hoping it isn't - and not adopting sustainable living practices in an effort to curb effects.
With half the footprint of a former life,
Chuck and the Pheebs.
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