People are complaining about our incredibly unseasonable weather.

[conuly]

It *is* a little creepy. And no, the fact that it's freezing in Texas doesn't make me feel better - global climate change doesn't mean that everybody gets warmer every day. Some places get colder.

But it's not the end of the world.

End of our way of living right now? Definitely.
End of our society as a whole? Probably, depending on how you define that.
End of humanity? Possibly.

Heck, I'll even accept "end of life on Earth" as a remote possibility. But not for long. Life pulled itself up from its bootstraps before it even existed, and life on this planet has survived cataclysms before.

End of the world for some people, but that doesn't mean nothing will be left.

I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse, by the way.

I'd like to see some sea walls and levees built. If they can build Holland up under sea level, can't they stop rising sea levels from flooding everything? Not that it'll happen, but I'd like to see it.


Last year was killer cold, so I don't know anyway. And apparently our stove and oven were never connected properly to the gas pipe. The stove and oven we depended on often to warm our house. WE COULD HAVE ASPHYXIATED SEVERAL TIMES OVER.

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[rho]

Are you familiar with this? Destroying the earth is far more difficult than we're generally led to believe.

[conuly]

Yes, as it happens.

I don't want to destroy the earth, anyway.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

DUDE, IT IS FREEZING IN TEXAS. WE R ALL GOING 2 DIE. OR SOMETHING.


Please send marshmallows so I can roast them over the fire made out of the neighbors bibles that we are using to keep ourselves warm and keep the corgis, I mean wolves, away.

Love and kisses,
Cait

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not die, but I do have a bruise 4" across and 3" high on my knee, because the City of Albuquerque is convinced that It Does Not Snow Here and so there is no way to get ice melt (or shovels) here for love or money. And when we went to our new house for the first time on Wednesday (after it snowed Friday and Saturday), I fell and messed up my knee. (And my leg, too. I mean, I bruised my knee, and also pulled something in my leg.)

That said, the weather isn't much colder than normal here, but normal for this time of year here is "it gets above freezing for a couple hours every afternoon" which isn't much good at melting 20" of snow.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Dear Texas,
I'll trade you.
Love, Someone who never thought she'd be wishing for cooler temperatures.

[rho]

Are you familiar with this? Destroying the earth is far more difficult than we're generally led to believe.

[conuly]

Yes, as it happens.

I don't want to destroy the earth, anyway.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

DUDE, IT IS FREEZING IN TEXAS. WE R ALL GOING 2 DIE. OR SOMETHING.


Please send marshmallows so I can roast them over the fire made out of the neighbors bibles that we are using to keep ourselves warm and keep the corgis, I mean wolves, away.

Love and kisses,
Cait

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not die, but I do have a bruise 4" across and 3" high on my knee, because the City of Albuquerque is convinced that It Does Not Snow Here and so there is no way to get ice melt (or shovels) here for love or money. And when we went to our new house for the first time on Wednesday (after it snowed Friday and Saturday), I fell and messed up my knee. (And my leg, too. I mean, I bruised my knee, and also pulled something in my leg.)

That said, the weather isn't much colder than normal here, but normal for this time of year here is "it gets above freezing for a couple hours every afternoon" which isn't much good at melting 20" of snow.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Dear Texas,
I'll trade you.
Love, Someone who never thought she'd be wishing for cooler temperatures.