This Is Not Good
Not good at all. This was a nice little hurricane a few hours ago, and now it has a definite attitude. It’s a good thing that Al Gore needs to lose weight or some people might suspect that these explosive growth major hurricanes have something to do with global climate change.
Think very positive thoughts for the people in the Caribbean, especially Haiti [Fay, Gustav, Hanna] and the Bahamas, because no one deserves this if the current tracking holds. They are dealing with Hanna now and this is on its way.
I think I would be looking at North Dakota right about now. The prices on houses and farms is really depressed.
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better hurry.
That’s what I get for being busy.
A friend moved to North Dakota, for love, last Spring. Now she is back. Bad scene. The whole state has been chronically depressed since its founding. Avoid it if at all possible.
North Dakota gets blizzards, so you probably don’t want to live there anyhow. If you’re looking for someplace where bad weather never happens… hmm. Closest I ever came to that was living in Phoenix, had a few sandstorms blow through but never anything destructive unless you consider 114 degree heat destructive (which I do, but that’s another story).
The only reasons I don’t live in Alaska are the earthquakes and the need to kill to live. I’ve had all of the killing anyone needs, and after carrying a weapon for a couple of decades I’m tired of them.
One of my best friends is from North Dakota and a major portion of his extended family still live there on wheat farms.
As Hipparchia pointed out, they have found oil up there, so it’s screwed. It is indeed declining economically and the population is shrinking, but there is water, which is disappearing in the desert West.
I’ve done some work in Phoenix, and the golf courses make it worse because they increase the humidity. Swamp coolers don’t work if you do that, and you have to turn to refrigeration.
The way things are going Canada may be a better choice anyway.
Oh yeah, I had a friend in Phoenix who moved there from North Dakota. He said he never wanted to see a snowflake again in his entire life, and 114 degree heat fit him just fine. He works for a bank there, because he was the only candidate for a programming position who showed up wearing a suit and tie and black shiny shoes. The hiring manager, tired of dirty hippies in t-shirts and jeans showing up, hired him on the spot. Good choice, though not for the reason he hired my friend…
– Badtux the Glad-to-be-away-from-the-heat Penguin
I grew up down here and I’m tired of the heat, even though I can still live without air conditioning when the need arises. You can adapt if you’re still young enough and it’s good to find your “climate”.
They really need to add “dress codes” to the curriculum for IT. It took me a couple of days to realize that I had to wear button-down oxford cloth short-sleeve shirts and chinos to work in SoCal, because the three-piece New York look wasn’t cutting it.
phoenix, waaaaay too much urban sprawl, though i do miss the desert.
You have to drive to find the desert these days.
i know. i did, last time i was there. there are still some nice open empty spots about halfway between phoenix and the grand canyon.
It won’t be long before the only open land is on the reservations.
“Power Suits” don’t work in most industries in LoCal areas, especially in Santa Barbara or Sandy Eggo. Hollywood/LaLa are in a different space all together. Gotta get the Gucci Power suit with the appropriate sunglasses, spray tan, snowy white teeth and carefully placed highlights.
Mother Nature is certainly sending in some hardball hurricanes. I don’t think people have gotten it into their heads that this is the future….better learn how to deal with it as horrible and destructive as it is. We’re warming up the earth and, like science tells us, there will be “reactions” to certain actions.
The only reasons I don’t live in Alaska are the earthquakes and the need to kill to live. I’ve had all of the killing anyone needs, and after carrying a weapon for a couple of decades I’m tired of them.
My sentiments exactly! I had the teen son of an old friend over some time ago, and he wanted to know all about my time in the military after he’d heard some stories from his Father and he’d seen a pic of me in a gillies suit. It was difficult to stay calm and quietly explain why he should choose other topics for discussion. 🙂
I saw on the news today that 9 Aussie SAS had been wounded in Afghanistan. The *cowardly terrorist insurgents* are getting bolder. Knowingly taking on an SAS unit, and wounding the members, is very bold and took a lot of planning. I *know* (though a grapevine I’m still part of) that Commanders here are VERY worried, and are talking bout some serious withdrawal planning ASAP. Afghanistan is going to hell, and we don’t want to be there when it goes.
Global warming Bryan? You been drinking moonshine again? Everybuddy kno dere aint no such animal! Shoot! Next you be saying crazy things like God doesn’t talk to G.W. Bush and that Santa is a commie on accounta the red suit! OK… That lst part might be true. LMAO 😉
Good luck again all! Be safe.
If you’re a teacher, they pay really well in Alaska….or they used to. I remember when I graduated from college, they were paying $6000-8000 a year here for 1st step, and $45,000 in Alaska!
I was in San Diego, Jill, and there was some culture shock. The climate is changing and people can either do something about it or start evolving. Personally I think it is easier to do something about greenhouse gases than to speed up the evolutionary process.
Kryten, they let them withdraw and rebuild because they lacked the manpower to stop it. The rush to Iraq made Afghanistan many times more difficult, if not impossible. There is a very small window of time available to stop insurgencies after battlefield success, and the US squandered it.
Afghanistan defaults to chaos when there is a power struggle, which is why you don’t let the struggle develop. It’s not like there aren’t all kinds of people who knew this was going to happen and how to avoid it, but no one would listen.
It’s not global warming where I am as temperatures are moderating, but climate change. The rain that once went North of us, is now falling on us. We are soggy while the farmlands have droughts.
The thing is, Moi, you could probably could have lived on $6K in Pennsylvania, while at the time making it on $45K in Alaska would have been tough. I lived there and I didn’t buy much from the local stores because almost everything was outrageously expensive due to shipping costs, especially food. There are few roads or railroads, so things have to be flown in and that isn’t cheap.