Waiting for Irma
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Hurricanes fired at us as from a baseball pitching machine…
What hath the Great American Eclipse wrought? Hurricane Irma has developed into the biggest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. It has decimated Caribbean islands, skirted Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and is now skimming along the northern coast of Cuba. Its path has shifted steadily from a skirt of the US eastern seaboard, to grazing Florida and hitting Georgia around Savannah and then heading inland to my own city of Columbia, SC, to its current path through central Florida and Georgia before sputtering out somewhere over Tennessee.
Of course, at this point (Saturday morning), it’s still south of Florida at Cuba (I’ve seen no sympathy for Cuba on the mainstream “news”). Though it’s expected to head up into Florida and travel overland, it could be steered anywhere, even out into the Gulf. What do the geoengineers have in mind for this storm and its two companions? We won’t know until it’s done (and really, not even then), but because of the potential path through South Carolina, I’ve been preparing for it all week.
I’ve been preparing at work, that is. Because I’m responsible for a computer network for a nonprofit organization that helps during emergencies, it is important that the network remain operational. At this point, the hurricane’s path is determined to bypass us by a wide margin, so we seem to have dodged that bullet.
Florida won’t dodge it, however. It looks certain that Irma will landfall on the Keys at Category 4 strength (maybe even Cat 5). As the storm sweeps up the peninsula, there will be much damage and suffering. May the spirits help all in that infernal path.
So since the GAE, we’ve seen four major hurricanes strike or threaten the US, a major earthquake-with-tsunami in Mexico, major solar flares, and the usual chem-trailing (though it’s been bad enough to choke on in SC lately). And in the human sphere, we’ve seen more sabre-rattling toward North Korea prompted by their nuclear bomb tests.
I’m really not big into omens, beyond as a dramatic device, but some dark momentums have ramped up and the GAE can be viewed as a herald. If you’re interested in reading about cosmic portents of physical events, I recommend this book . It’s also a good overview of world events as seen from outside the mainstream media.
These dark momentums are evidence of our changing world. We have reached the limits to growth and our ten thousand year old paradigm for civilization is ill-equipped to handle it. That situation is the foundation for the post-apocalypse novel I’m writing (Power of the Ancients). Actually, there has been an explosion of post-apocalypse drama in recent years, and I think it comes from the common, subliminal, consensus that things can’t go on as they have.
In the meantime, I’ll just track the disasters and try to stay out of their way.
PS: Here’s a link to the hurricane page on the South Carolina 211 website. While it’s slanted towards SC, it contains info that might be helpful to anyone having to deal with a hurricane and its aftermath.
What hath the Great American Eclipse wrought? Hurricane Irma has developed into the biggest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. It has decimated Caribbean islands, skirted Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and is now skimming along the northern coast of Cuba. Its path has shifted steadily from a skirt of the US eastern seaboard, to grazing Florida and hitting Georgia around Savannah and then heading inland to my own city of Columbia, SC, to its current path through central Florida and Georgia before sputtering out somewhere over Tennessee.
Of course, at this point (Saturday morning), it’s still south of Florida at Cuba (I’ve seen no sympathy for Cuba on the mainstream “news”). Though it’s expected to head up into Florida and travel overland, it could be steered anywhere, even out into the Gulf. What do the geoengineers have in mind for this storm and its two companions? We won’t know until it’s done (and really, not even then), but because of the potential path through South Carolina, I’ve been preparing for it all week.
I’ve been preparing at work, that is. Because I’m responsible for a computer network for a nonprofit organization that helps during emergencies, it is important that the network remain operational. At this point, the hurricane’s path is determined to bypass us by a wide margin, so we seem to have dodged that bullet.
Florida won’t dodge it, however. It looks certain that Irma will landfall on the Keys at Category 4 strength (maybe even Cat 5). As the storm sweeps up the peninsula, there will be much damage and suffering. May the spirits help all in that infernal path.
So since the GAE, we’ve seen four major hurricanes strike or threaten the US, a major earthquake-with-tsunami in Mexico, major solar flares, and the usual chem-trailing (though it’s been bad enough to choke on in SC lately). And in the human sphere, we’ve seen more sabre-rattling toward North Korea prompted by their nuclear bomb tests.
I’m really not big into omens, beyond as a dramatic device, but some dark momentums have ramped up and the GAE can be viewed as a herald. If you’re interested in reading about cosmic portents of physical events, I recommend this book . It’s also a good overview of world events as seen from outside the mainstream media.
These dark momentums are evidence of our changing world. We have reached the limits to growth and our ten thousand year old paradigm for civilization is ill-equipped to handle it. That situation is the foundation for the post-apocalypse novel I’m writing (Power of the Ancients). Actually, there has been an explosion of post-apocalypse drama in recent years, and I think it comes from the common, subliminal, consensus that things can’t go on as they have.
In the meantime, I’ll just track the disasters and try to stay out of their way.
PS: Here’s a link to the hurricane page on the South Carolina 211 website. While it’s slanted towards SC, it contains info that might be helpful to anyone having to deal with a hurricane and its aftermath.
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