Friday, March 10, 2023

Wishing You Many Eternal Returns


The Pacific Northwest looks familiar, so at least I know where I am. What's coming is another story. 

What looks like the kind of blanket a white person is given at a potlatch is in fact a computer-coloured map of an approaching weather system. Vancouverites have been experiencing atmospheric rivers a while now, but this is new territory for Californians.

Until this year, Southern California was beginning to look like toast. Literally. For a while I couldn't get on with my day without scanning for updates on the withering Colorado River, a main source of H2O for the 40 million or so living between San Luis Obispo and San Diego. Every day dropping water levels revealed something new, be it a stolen car or a headless, handless skeleton. 

And now this floating river system, whose rain will fall on melting snow, and from there god knows whose house will slide down the hill, which cars will be lost until the next drought.

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