New Orleans

[watervole]

I have a memory that always makes connections by songs. It's just the way it works.

Today, simply by acknowledging the tunes running through my head ('Battle of New Orleans', 'House of the Rising Sun' and 'And I fell in love with a Creole girl, by the lakes of Pontchartrain') I know what is on my mind.

For me, it's a tragedy on many levels. I said to a friend a few months ago (he was a global warming skeptic) that the easiest prediction to make was that hurricanes would get worse (not more frequent, but more damaging) as their strength is directly related to ocean-surface temperatures.

BEing right is no fun.

Comments

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

Coastal areas at or below sea level are looking less and less like sensible places to live.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you say "not more frequent"? Hurricanes of categories 1-5 are the most powerful representatives of a general population of tropical storms: increasing their severity is going to increase the number that are "promoted" to category 1.

Also, as well as more 1s, 2s... 5s, etc., we may have to start thinking about a new category, 6, soon, as Cat 5 will encompass too broad a range of sustained wind speeds in the new environment.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Oh, here's a coincidence. I just saw a post by a climatologist who said that some models showed more intense tropical storms from the warmer water, but a smaller population of them from other, different, factors, leading to little overall change in the absolute number of hurricanes. So you're right.

Well, I'm not sure I believe the smaller number bit, but you certainly recalled right.

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[morfessa.livejournal.com]

got your reply - dont worry if your voice is still missing - I think the connection is better in prson s I am willing to wait until you are better. But mail me at josephine.dunn@btopenworld.com or phone me on either of my numbers (or text mobile) & arrange for me to phone you at a sensible time. Has anyone suggested you may have a 'block' on communicating at present? finding it hard to say something unpleasant, difficult etc. Sometimes the mind affects the body very strongly. Assume you have overdosed on vit c & echinacea? Try accupuncture. its the only thing that even touches my back, guts & asthma - even my gp is now admitting that hospitalsare rubbish .......
Of course the world is coming apart at the seams - but if we all start to doom & gloom it only makes it worse. Every positive thought is a chance to hold the pieces together & posibly mend the remains after the shift happens - if no tin our life times then in our childrens' or grandchildrens'. I just wish PEOPLE would not be so crap - not just a problem BEing right but a case of shooting the messenger - or do most people just live like ostriches?