The sun has been out for 2 day’s now. But I can tell you first hand, there is something ominous hanging in the air. I can’t quite put my finger on it. I think for me, it’s the thought that things where I live, are seemingly normal, except for limited stock at groceries, limited hours at businesses and restaurants, very limited gas, and so on. The things you kind of expect after a major hurricane. I’m still trying to process, how, Mother Nature spared my neighborhood and home. We literally are surrounded by major bodies of water, Clear Lake a block away, Galveston Bay 2 miles away, and a water access bayou about 500 ft in front of my house. We should be under water. The fact that Mother Nature spared us, I am eternally grateful.
It is surreal to me, that less than 10 miles away, there are still people being pulled out of their homes by boat, as bayous continue to rise, government offices and services are still offline, there is a chemical plant in Crosby, Tx who’s product is exploding uncontrolled because the power went out, and the storage temperature can’t be maintained, so it just continues to randomly explode. Now the refineries being offline is beginning to be felt in Dallas, as a gas shortage is underway. People are fighting in the streets and the police are having to patrol gas stations. This my friends is only the beginning. It is going to continue to snowball.
Mother Nature has sent us a warning. A wake up call if you will. We are unprepared. We are a dependent society. She has sent us a warning to let us know, we can’t afford to be divided, we couldn’t handle the civil war on the horizon, as the media continue to fuel the fire to divide us. Our infrastructure couldn’t handle it. Our lives as we know it would be over. We’re struggling to overcome the aftermath of 1 storm. I can’t imagine why as a society we continue down the path we’re on and self inflict this way of living as a near future permanently on ourselves. She’s screaming loud and clear, “just stop!”
We need to walk out into the streets and love thy neighbor, hug thy brother, irregardless of your politics. We’re all just fragile humans dependent on this infrastructure we’ve created. We need to take care of each other. Those are human beings being pulled out of that water, and off those rooftops. Not whites, blacks, Asians, Indians, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, transgenders, just human beings.
Put down your politics people. The temper tantrums need to stop. We won’t survive the breakdown of our modern society. We need to remember Harvey.
Stay safe.
M
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