Whoa. Are these the storms we can expect?
Jul. 20th, 2012 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusStorm.
Last night we huddled in our little cars, parked, headlights on, windshield wipers stroking, frightened and startled by the violence of the storm.
The lightning pounded the ground like air strikes, close, bright lines crisscrossing each other. Thunder rattled the windows.
I sat thinking, Is this what we can expect for the future? Is this the price of my gallon of gas? The more powerful storms are the result of global warming, I know, I sat in on the US research presented from the studies of Hurricane Katrina and (mostly) the one in Texas after. The increase in global temps puts more moisture in the air, hence more powerful winds, larger cloud systems and bigger, badder storms.
Have we really damaged the environment that much, that our kids will inherit a more frightening world? That even the storms will be much worse?
I used to stand out in the wind and watch it roar. But storms weren't this bad.
Last night we huddled in our little cars, parked, headlights on, windshield wipers stroking, frightened and startled by the violence of the storm.
The lightning pounded the ground like air strikes, close, bright lines crisscrossing each other. Thunder rattled the windows.
I sat thinking, Is this what we can expect for the future? Is this the price of my gallon of gas? The more powerful storms are the result of global warming, I know, I sat in on the US research presented from the studies of Hurricane Katrina and (mostly) the one in Texas after. The increase in global temps puts more moisture in the air, hence more powerful winds, larger cloud systems and bigger, badder storms.
Have we really damaged the environment that much, that our kids will inherit a more frightening world? That even the storms will be much worse?
I used to stand out in the wind and watch it roar. But storms weren't this bad.