Have online dictionary, will travel
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Storms

9/8/2017

0 Comments

 
The prospect of another weekend of terrible storms freaks me out a bit---only a little because we're not in the path this time. Still, I'm having some anxiety. A lot of it has to do with the fact that my early years were spent in Kansas City, MO, and one of my earliest memories is of hiding in a basement from a tornado. And not too long after that we moved to Houston which is susceptible to hurricanes. I remember hurricane Alicia rattling the windows of my parents' house so hard I was sure they'd break. (We didn't actually have a room without windows in that house. If they had broken we'd have been cut up badly.) In the end, we weathered it just fine, but the memories stick. Storms of various types (and T-Rex attacks) have heavily featured in my nightmares my whole life for reasons I won't go into. Which is why it's so silly for me to take so long to figure out why I couldn't get work done last weekend due to obsessively checking Harvey's progress through Texas. Storms scare the shit out of me.

And here we are, facing not just one but three storms making landfall (in Irma's case AGAIN) this weekend. It terrifies me that we've had two "storms of the century" this year already. It worries me that Climate Change is still being bandied about as if it were a fiction. (If you've doubts check this: climate.nasa.gov/evidence/) The longer we ignore situation, the worse this is going to get, bats and ghouls. And yet, I know certain sectors of the American population won't change their minds until they're directly impacted and that impact needs to be financially when it comes to business-minded folks.

My thoughts are with those enduring these terrible storms, fires, and earthquakes. My hope is that the impact is minimal upon you and yours. However, I can't help but hope that once Irma lands that it is enough proof via financial cost to foment change. (I understand that Trump has several properties being affected.) All in all, we can't afford to debate any longer. We must act.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Stina Leicht

    is a Science Fiction and Fantasy author living in Texas.

    This blog is updated infrequently. Follow me on Twitter for announcements of new posts over on Patreon. Thanks for reading!

    -----------
    Schedule
    Currently nothing is planned.

    ​
    Novels:
    Loki's Ring
    ​Persephone Station 
    Cold Iron 
    Blackthorne 
    Of Blood and Honey 
    And Blue Skies from Pain

    Short Stories:
    Forgiveness is Warm Like a Tear on a Cheek (Evil in Technicolor)
    A Siren's Cry is a Song of Sorrow (September, Apex Magazine)
    Second Verse, Same as the First 
    Last Drink Bird Head
    Texas Died for Somebody's Sins But Not Mine
    -----------
    Like my content?

    Archives

    March 2023
    January 2021
    December 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    June 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact