I’m about to do something extremely gauche and, well, Republican, because I am going to bitch about how shitty the weather has been this past week while 40 million people are at risk of drowning because of Hurricane Helene, but there you have it. The weather here has sucked- just cloudy and no sun and not even the decency to do a proper rain. And I am such a moody prick that I am really influenced by the weather. If it is not sunny I am pissy and moody and have less energy. It doesn’t need to be warm. I just need sun.
At any rate, because it is crappy, I am making a big pot of corned beef and cabbage soup for dinner. I’m still trying to watch my girlish figure, so I only used two potatoes but a whole bags of carrots, two onions, two heads of cabbage, and a thing of corned beef. I’ll never get over the cost of corned beef these days. What used to cost me 3-4 bucks is now 17-18 dollars. It will always be poor people food to me.
I’ve seen several pieces along the line of “Biden brought these red states lots of jobs and these people are still voting Republican,” and this is as good a representative of the genre as is out there. Maddening.
It’s really depressing that in the year 2024 we’re still pushing the economic anxiety angle. No, not everyone is doing well out there and there is tons that needs to be done, but the simple fact of the matter is that these people don’t care about it. All they want to do is to say the n word and be told by people that it is ok to feel that way. I’m just over it.
The flooding all over and landslides and the rest of the horror going on in Georgia and the Carolinas and everyhere else is horrifying, and it’s so bad I am wondering how they are all going to blame Biden and Harris. It’s just awful, of course, but this is the new normal and people need to get used to it. No more building in flood zones. No more buildup on the coasts. Harden everything for scenarios which once were unthinkable.
Nothing can be the way it was before, down to road and bridge construction and the materials we use in our houses. Cement or similar materials on the ground floors, no more drywall, etc. Thinking of new ways to deliver power whether with buried lines and more redundancy in the grid, relocating hospitals, new ways to store fuel and deal with human and animal waste so it quits getting washed all over the place in floods. And on and on and on. The mess we are in is real, it isn’t a hypothetical, it is here, and it is going to get worse.
These changes, of course, will never come from government mandates, but by the accountants.
Extreme weather is the new normal.
I’m about talked out. Time to head back to some Jack Irish.
