PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Subfreezing temperatures across much of the U.S. left millions of Americans facing dangerous cold as Arctic storms left four dead and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands in the Northwest, brought snow to the South, and walloped the Northeast with blizzard conditions that forced the postponement of an NFL game.
I am in infrastructure and even our token office MAGA (pretty sure it is the law that every office has to have one) has come along on global warming. We know shit is overheating that shouldn’t be and flooding is happening where it historically has not happened before. How? Government works the same way everything else does. If your fridge breaks you get a new one and put it in the same spot. When government stuff breaks we put the new one where the old one was. Meaning we know that a given site didn’t have problems in the past but has them now.
Me personally I have just accepted that the rest of my life will be palliative care. It makes it easier to face this crap. I can’t stop what is happening, but I can do what little I can to minimize suffering as it happens. Maybe the nightmare scenarios will come and the last things I do on earth will be putting in pump systems to buy us more time. Maybe they won’t and I am worried over nothing.