I guess tonight's sunset is a gift from our impending Doom^H^H^H^HNor'easter. The color gamut on my phone did not adequately capture its beauty.
#weatherishappening — Public Fediverse posts
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21°C / 72°F dewpoint in #Kingston ON this morning.... let us consult the #weatherishappening dew point dankness scale.... oh meye... OPPRESSIVELY DANK
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At times I wonder if I upbraid my readers too much. Even if usually not overtly.
But then I check out what the great WEATHER IS HAPPENING Weather Man is (always) telling his readers. Overtly. Reminding me how maybe we all should be upbraided more, not less...
Yeah, it's a fine mess we've made! And no, I don't think Weather Man is only joking around. Not truly.
#repentance
#WeatherIsHappeninghttps://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/116256146311230496
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⚠️⛈️ tails.ch is on emergency power while this freaky wind storm, with gusts up to 65 MPH (and boy is it hitting those gusts), beats the hell out of trees and, thusly, the power grid. Over 60,000 New England customers have no power so far, and that number is going up by the minute.
Not looking forward to this being the new normal, but we at least expect to maintain enough emergency power to continue service until further notice.
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While I’m glad it’s no longer “freeze your titties off” season, “no matter what, you’re wearing the wrong thing” season is its own kind of miserable.
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I was lying in bed feeling kind of vertigo-ey and I was like man this is weird am I high or drunk or getting sick or delirious
No
It’s just so windy that the house is shaking
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CLOUDBURST IN #JERSEYCITY!!!
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CW: Hurricane Melissa, climate change, thoughts from someone in a position of safety
Watching Melissa with a conflicting mixture of mounting awe and horror. The horror is pretty easy to pin down: A lot of the reporting I'm seeing is outlining this storm as a direct result of climate change, and once again those most responsible for this get to watch as an already exploited people bear the brunt of the consequences.
The awe is very messy. I'm seeing hurricane nerds tripping over their excitement at seeing one of the most "perfect" storms ever recorded, breaking records left, right, and sideways, and their awareness that this "once in a lifetime phenomenon" (likely the herald of more such storms to come) is going to seriously devastate Jamaica.
I get it. It is *awesome* in every sense of the word. I think it was either "It Could Happen Here" or "Live Like the World is Dying" (or both) that first made me understand why @WEATHERISHAPPENING felt so on the money: Climate change is a hyperobject, one that exists all around us and has a very real impact on our day-to-day, but only really becomes visible to us as individual creatures when a Lovecraftian tentacle reaches down and smites a population... always somewhere over there. The distant suffering is just background noise until it hits *you.* And until that point you get through your day-to-day. And frequently even communities in the throes of such events are compelled by the economic structures of this world (another hyperobject!) to continue as if it is *still* day-to-day!
We are ants at the mercy of a larger force than us. Have we made it angry? Have we merely drawn it's attention? Do we even warrant it's attention? Any preparation we make only serves us if we are located somewhere that causes us to suffer a glancing blow. There's nothing to be done about a direct hit. What can we do but fall to our knees and repent?
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Commuting is a good time to repent to your Weather Lords and also remind your fellow commuters about the importance of overthrowing the oligarchs that have brought us into this dark commuting reality.
(You should be following @WEATHERISHAPPENING )
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Getting all of the rain and a good amount of the wind in Boston. Dog walk is gonna be fun this evening #mawx #weatherishappening
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We got 2" of snow in ~4 hours this morning. It was very pretty, but now it's mostly gone #snowday #weatherishappening
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Bombogenesis
Explosive cyclogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home#WeatherIsHappening
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Oppressively dank Aurora action just outside Providence continues to cook. @WEATHERISHAPPENING #aurora #providence #weatherishappening #photography
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Oppressively dank Aurora action just outside Providence. #aurora #providence #weatherishappening #photography
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I am wearing my #WeatherIsHappening shirt today as I await the winds from ex-horrorblob Helene.
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holy shit huge intense storm coming through #Boston right now. very sudden huge gusts / hail / etc. stay safe
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I don’t know about you, but if #Providence had more #transit options it would be worthy of its name. Least the river walk is good.
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Good to be home (mostly) #yuck #WeatherIsHappening
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I am fascinated by some aspect of the weather here almost daily. Yesterday it was the morning fog, today it's the excessive heat warning. It's supposed to hit almost 90 today, which seems not terrible by comparison but then you look at a map of where Tillamook Bay is and then it's a definite indicator of #WeatherIsHappening
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#Montpelier #VT this afternoon. The water is slowly starting to recede. The smell is something else; a mix of sewage and heating oil. Fire alarms ringing in buildings cause an eerie atmosphere.
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#Flood waters have risen further. The crosswalk you could see in my previous photos is now fully submerged.
#Vermont #VT #VTwx #weather #VermontFlooding #Montpelier #WeatherIsHappening
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Apparently the forecast is for 2 more feet before the Winooski peaks.
Source: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=btv&gage=monv1
#VT #VTwx #VermontFlooding #Montpelier #weather #wx #WeatherIsHappening
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Well, downtown Montpelier sure flooded. Pics from earlier this evening.
#Vermont #VT #Montpelier #VTwx #VermontFlooding #flooding #weather #wx #WeatherIsHappening
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As the Earth gets hotter, and more humid, you're going to hear the phrase "wet bulb temperature" a lot more. What does it mean? Why should you pay attention? Watch this handy, informative video to find out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCG2B2A7yFA
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-24C (-12F) with wind chill of -35C. Yeehaw #WeatherIsHappening #MAwx #Weather #Massachusetts
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CW: The world is burning, go back to work.
In many ways I feel like January 7th all over again. Heinous fucking shit happens, the kind of shit that, in a sane world, would have dragged a country to a screeching halt while we try to fix whatever the fuck is wrong with us and instead we all just... go back to work.
Insurrection, go back to work.
Pandemic, go back to work.
Another self immolation at the supreme court, go back to work.
A forest defender killed, go back to work.
A person shot by the police in the streets, go back to work.
Another person, executed by the police, go back to work.
Another person, savagely beaten to death by a gang of officers, go back to work.
Another species extinct, go back to work.
Another massive heatwave in the global south, go back to work.
More mass shootings than days in the year, go back to work.
You live in a failed state that keeps you on the brink of poverty, go back to work.
You have rent, go back to work.
you need to eat, go back to work.
Student debt, go back to work.
Medical debt, what the fuck! Go back to work.
Look at all the unhoused people just like you, go back to work.Go back to work.
Go back to work.
Go back to work.
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But if brevity is your thing and you don't have 45 minutes, no one lays it out better or simpler than Mark Twain:
“There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
-Mark Twain "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
#WeatherIsHappening #antiwork #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAnxiety #CollapseAware
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The lockdown broke me. And the reason it broke me was because I got to experience my perfect day. And I got to experience it repeatedly:
At the time I had maybe $9000. My rent was $750 a month. I was unemployed (though heavily paid the #ADHDTax by not applying for unemployment). I had managed to secure some staples (especially flour. I've always been a baker, and when I saw the way the bread section looked at Market Basket I wandered over to the baking section and bought 20lbs of flour and figured I'd be able to keep myself fed and entertained for a bit.) So my emotional state was calm. We just needed to ride this thing out, I have food, I have money, there's nothing I can really do right now but chill the fuck out. And I did. I never do that.
I'd wake up in the morning and brew myself a pot of tea. As it steeped I'd fold up my bed and sit in the middle of the tatami my bed was on in my attic bedroom. I'd turn on my stereo I had scavenged and pick an album. I had just started exploring ambient music. This morning I pick Green by #HiroshiYoshimura. I pour myself a cup of tea and bask in the sun streaming through my skylight. As I blow across the tea I watch the ongoing drama at the bird feeder I had installed to the window a few weeks ago after a bout of hyper-fixation on bird watching. Three mourning doves have become regulars, and they are the dumbest birds I've ever seen. They are much too big for this feeder, and they are too dumb to take turns, so all three of them try to perch and end up shoving each other off and begin a perpetually cascading fountain of feather, coos, and struggle as they keep unseating each other. A pair of nuthatches watch, frustrated from the large tree just outside my window. I finish the album and still have tea left. The temperature is mild so I climb out our front window onto the roof with a blanket and a book and sit. I don't read much and instead watch folks walking up and down the middle of the street, commenting on this odd new liberty in our ongoing apocalypse. I decide I want to be a little closer to these conversations so I walk down to the front porch and set up my hammock. I make myself a grilled cheese and another pot of tea and sit in the hammock while I continue to people watch. My street had never been this interesting before... or maybe I've just never had time to observe it. Eventually I decide I should maybe move or something so I get my bike out and go for a ride. There are no cars. Cycling has never been this enjoyable before. I bike smack down the middle of Elm Street, my hand's behind my head as I stretch in the sun and look around at the new, slow pace life has taken on. I pedal lazily through the streets of Somerville and up the minuteman until I get to the meadows and do a little bit of languid trail riding. When I find a quiet spot I set up my hammock again and just rock and listen. As the temperature drops I make my way home. I make myself dinner and split a beer with my roommate while I watch him play Skyrim and we banter. Eventually he turns in and I make a pot of herbal tea and sit on the roof wrapped in a blanket and watch the neighborhood around me settle down for the evening. I hear people coughing, and I shiver. It's time to head inside.
I recognize this was a scary, awful time for so many people, as it was that for me as well. I was lucky that no one in my circle had contracted it, and I wasn't actively wrapped in anxiety or mourning over anyone I knew. That being said, I had never taken a vacation before in my life, and I think this was the closest I've ever been. There was nothing I could do in those days, nothing was expected of me, so I just... vibed. It was something I've never experienced before in my life, and I wish I could just have an hour like that each day. That shouldn't be too much to ask, but these days it's always just out of reach. I got to taste the good life, and slowly that's been taken away from me piece by piece as we "return to normal.
#WeatherIsHappening #ClimateCrisis #IWW #antiwork #ADHD #greencollargrunt #greenwashing #greenwash #LateStageCapitalism #Sisyphean
