Saturday, September 29, 2018

Cool, Clear Here & Tsunami There

Turns out, there was a tsunami with yesterday's 7.5 magnitude quake in Palu, Indonesia, 6 meters in height and recent news has pushed the death toll to over 400, and that is likely to rise. The walls of water are reported to have done more carnage  than the building collapses in the area. Aftershocks continue in the upper 4 to low 5 range into today around Palu, anxiety added to already distraught region.  An otherwise fairly quiet quake day on the broken planet.
Here in the Atlantic seaboard, the atmospheric conditions are dreamy, mid-50's overnight and only into the 70's today with a breeze and low humidity, the first weekend of fall is why this is my favorite season. Even more so since I can get up and wander the forest at my leisure, writing what I please instead of lesson plans (such that I ever really "wrote" them). Perhaps another little limerick.

'Tis sad that the beer drinking Brett
Often drank til he would forget
Of where he had been
And, how he did sin
But reminded, showed anger, not regret.

And, rivers in the eastern Carolina's have still not quite crested, now almost 2 weeks after the mighty Flo passed through the area. I don't think all of I-95 has even opened back up yet. Time keeps rolling on and lives elsewhere, too, but the Carolinas are going to take a long time to recover, cleanup and rebuild from this one. Houston is still far from recovered from Harvey, Earth keeps spinning but the rules: Adapt, Migrate or Die, are still in play for everything, everyday. Hope you adapt or make a move, the third option being penultimate for us all but stay aware and enjoy and live, Today on Earth.

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