Sat 16 Dec 2006
Hot air hangs like a dead man from a white oak tree.
People sitting on porches thinking how things used to be.
Dark night… dark night.
Dark night indeed… perhaps many of them. Cold too.
Global warming or not the world is in a tizzy, climatically speaking. The Lower Mainland area of British Columbia and the entire Northwest of America was hit with the biggest rain and wind storm in recorded history two days ago. One area just off Vancouver Island recorded a wind speed of 157 km/h - that’s hurricane territory.
So, it’s no wonder that as I write this there are still over 250,000 people without power in the Lower Mainland area. Guess where I live…?! (more…)