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It's hot. Today it was 37C and tomorrow won't be much better.
It's humid. Outside is like sauna. The moment you walk out the door the skin feels clammy and sticky.
But worst of all is the smoke.
At first we thought it was just the humidity. Like being in a cloud. The world started to disappear. Usually we can see far away hills from our window and today they were just barely visible outlines.
Then we walked outside and we could smell it. Like something was burning. It smelled just like bonefire smoke. And in a way it is. There are woods burning and the smoke is coming this way.
I remember something like this from my first visit in US. I was in Montana and it was exceptionally hot and dry summer. The southern part of state was burning and despite the fact we were on the other end of the state the smoke was so thick you couldn't see the mountains at all on some days.
It wasn't all that surprising. Underneath the trees everything is so dry it falls apart at a touch. Anything can start a fire and from Texas to Florida anything is.
This is not the only place drying out. Western Europe is having one of the worst droughts in half of century and the crops will be down for sure this year. Despite what some say the food shortage won't be felt by those countries. At least not as much as those who are already in dire situation. The food price will rise again and it will be hard for more people but it's not the rich countries that suffer the worst. It's the poor ones. France, Germany and other European countries will just buy the food they need on international markets but this will mean the prices will rise and there won't be enough and/or it will be too expensive for the poorer ones. This is how the last year's revolutions started - food shortages did what the lack of freedom couldn't. But being democracy doesn't buy food and this year might be worse then the last one. The thing about living in a global village is that we all buy stuff at the same market. Let's hope next year the bread baskets don't get stricken by anymore natural disasters.
Meanwhile they keep promising us rain but I haven't seen one since week and a half ago and one storm won't help anyway. It's too dry anyway. The funny thing is we did this to ourselves. And when we die out the world will just move on.
And we are all getting smoked slowly. My pet theory right now it's aliens preparing us for consumption.
It's humid. Outside is like sauna. The moment you walk out the door the skin feels clammy and sticky.
But worst of all is the smoke.
At first we thought it was just the humidity. Like being in a cloud. The world started to disappear. Usually we can see far away hills from our window and today they were just barely visible outlines.
Then we walked outside and we could smell it. Like something was burning. It smelled just like bonefire smoke. And in a way it is. There are woods burning and the smoke is coming this way.
I remember something like this from my first visit in US. I was in Montana and it was exceptionally hot and dry summer. The southern part of state was burning and despite the fact we were on the other end of the state the smoke was so thick you couldn't see the mountains at all on some days.
It wasn't all that surprising. Underneath the trees everything is so dry it falls apart at a touch. Anything can start a fire and from Texas to Florida anything is.
This is not the only place drying out. Western Europe is having one of the worst droughts in half of century and the crops will be down for sure this year. Despite what some say the food shortage won't be felt by those countries. At least not as much as those who are already in dire situation. The food price will rise again and it will be hard for more people but it's not the rich countries that suffer the worst. It's the poor ones. France, Germany and other European countries will just buy the food they need on international markets but this will mean the prices will rise and there won't be enough and/or it will be too expensive for the poorer ones. This is how the last year's revolutions started - food shortages did what the lack of freedom couldn't. But being democracy doesn't buy food and this year might be worse then the last one. The thing about living in a global village is that we all buy stuff at the same market. Let's hope next year the bread baskets don't get stricken by anymore natural disasters.
Meanwhile they keep promising us rain but I haven't seen one since week and a half ago and one storm won't help anyway. It's too dry anyway. The funny thing is we did this to ourselves. And when we die out the world will just move on.
And we are all getting smoked slowly. My pet theory right now it's aliens preparing us for consumption.
