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It is thereby confronted with an uncanny vision of the future.
But it is real now, not later, and it is happening to people alive today, not to their children sometime in the distant future.
In the first post of this series I contemplated sea level rise, which is a slow motion reality unlike the fast-forward scenario taking place in today's current ongoing disaster.
A disaster that is not only taking place in Houston, but is also taking place all along the Gulf Coast of Texas.
This catastrophe is brought on by Category 4 hurricane Harvey, which is now a tropical storm that is not leaving anytime soon enough, because there are no "steering fronts" to push it away, no jet stream to push it along to harm someone else somewhere else.
Some meteorologists are calling this the greatest flood-disaster in U.S. history, and perhaps the worst disaster ever in U.S. history.
It still has days to go.
The sea level rise disaster doesn't help, because it is rendering large parts of the Houston area into below-sea-level areas.
Today's danger, tomorrow's danger, and the danger the next day after that will unfortunately be views of the future of Houston, and other U.S. cities on the coast, such as New York City.
Views that give us a true reality of what is coming.
It is not pretty.
The most striking thing to me is that there were days of forewarnings, just as there have been years of warning on the sea level rise dangers.
Very few, percentage wise, heed the warnings (Choose Your Trances Carefully, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
As a result, "as we speak" the emergency services are spread thin.
People have to wait four or five hours on the roofs of their houses for rescue, if rescue comes at all.
And there are several more days of rain, the highest accumulation being as much as five feet of rain piling up in rivers, lakes, streets, homes, roads, and businesses.
The denier governments are dumbing down those in danger areas, and thereby increasing death and injury to citizens who follow and believe those official deniers.
From the idiotic messages of the president on down to agency leaders, governors, and local mayors, they preach lies to their constituents and those constituents suffer for it.
This is going to increase as time goes on, unless those deniers in power are taken out of office, or voted out of office, permanently.
The previous post in this series is here.
