I'm still struck by the sound of the thing.
Such a volume was falling from the skies it roared like a waterfall.I was listening to music with headphones. There was a growling sound.
At first I thought there was a massive leak in the building.
I went out into the hall, and the sound was coming from above.
Climbed up to the roof landing.
The steel door vibrated with the force of rain hitting it.
It echoed through the whole building.
The door held, but he sound. I'll never forget it. Rain came with such force.
In all my 71 years I never experienced anything like Storm Ida.
I wanted to see this to be in it. I went down stairs,...and changed my mind.
A few people were watching.
Rain was blasting our glass doors like full force fire hoses.
Nothing not even Sandy was like this. This was an assault by pressurized rain.
If there'd been winds the City would have been devastated. 8 to 12 inches of rain fell in most areas.
More than a whole summer's worth in just a few hours.
The videos show the damage to the region. 42 perished some still missing. One is left shaken confused. Like 9/11 things we thought strong, and permanent aren't. The fires, and storms around the world. The extremes of weather now ongoing. We have entered another climatic era.
The videos show the damage to the region. 42 perished some still missing. One is left shaken confused. Like 9/11 things we thought strong, and permanent aren't. The fires, and storms around the world. The extremes of weather now ongoing. We have entered another climatic era.
It does not mater if millions refuse to believe it.
Like they don't don't believe COVID is real. It kills them just the same. This era is changing the world. It's happening. It will continue to happen till a new balance is established.
Me? My family friends are safe, and I have a home.
However I still don't have hot water. I'd rather face the end of things clean, and tidy.
So I'm taking cold showers. Like cloistered monks do.
I sometimes see my digs as a monastery cell. I pray secular prayers, and write non-denominational screeds. For the last 18 months in this Pandemic era. That's pretty much what we've all in our unique ways have been doing. We're a kind of secular Monks, and Nuns all. The Order of Sanctus Quarentenus. Be well be safe be kind.
Re cold showers: check out Wim Hof. He's hardcore.
ReplyDeleteThere's something to be said for the monastic life; you can get a lot done with very low stress if your needs are simple. What I resent is a hateful enforced chastity; but that isn't the monasteries' fault: it's society at large.
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At my age I'd be chaste now anyway. However I resent the enforcement of having no consensual intimate life during the previous 50 years.
ReplyDeleteDionysian Queers are in the same shithole boring mainstream "...we're just like you", alphabet soup gai culture was in perhaps a century ago. To be discovered back then for them, and still for us is social destruction or even death.
That why Queers always killed themselves in them Victorian novels.
Even our old pal Oscar Wilde wrote wrote that sort of crap. Google "The Priest, and the Acolyte". He had our main character heroes, an Acolyte aka altar boy, and a young Seminarian off themselves for falling in love.
It's akin to the Black guy getting killed first in monster movies.
Just fucking swell. On the upside,...well there ain't one, but I gots hot water again.