Florida on the mind today, just as Puerto Rico was on my mind yesterday and Texas last week. All the while South Asia drowns and doesn’t even break into the news cycle.
Friends, parents of friends, former neighbors, children of neighbors: all are flying and driving as far north as they can. Flights are being cancelled because the crews have been working nonstop; rescheduled flights are likely to not be soon enough to get out ahead of the winds. Empty gas stations along the road, kids and dogs piled into cars trying to get even as far as a house with a cement basement and a generator.
This hurricane season is going to be the line between our lives before and the felt reality that global warming is past the tipping point. Be as safe as you can, Florida.