Hurricane Ida
The cleanup from Hurricane Ida is underway. Residents of
Lambertville, NJ, were putting out broken chairs and toys, damaged kitchen
appliances, split tables, soaked mattresses, wooden slats from porches and
shingles off houses. It wasn’t every house that experienced such devastation
but enough to emphasize how strong the hurricane was.
Mullica Hill, NJ, was hit by an Ida-created tornedo that whipped
through the town, causing houses and farms to be stripped or even flattened! Sometimes
one side of a street was effected while the other side was left alone.
Ida hit lots of places along the eastern coast hard and like
all such storms, it was erratic. Some towns were flooded, others just wet from
the rain. We were lucky in our area. There were downed trees but nothing
disastrous.
Climate change is definitely happening. What we need now is
a new way to look at our environment. Perhaps by changing our interference with
nature we can modify the strength and number of storms in the future.
Climate change and hurricanes:
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So many people refused to believe that our behavior was creating climate change or that climate change doesn't even exist. My hope is that the severity of recent fires and storms will convince people, in general, and our leaders, specifically, that the time to act is now.
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