We live in a strange new world, one in which the familiar is all mixed up with the radically altered. Such was the case this weekend when a weather pattern that was pretty normal for summer spawned a single thunderstorm that produced a once-in-a-thousand-years flood event in Ellicott City.
Normal Weekend, Typical Weather Pattern, Abnormal Conditions
On Saturday, my wife and I readied to trek out to Shenandoah National Park for a happily-anticipated summer camping trip. As we headed out the door, the weather pattern looked mostly normal for summer, if a little stormy. A high-pressure system out over the ocean was pulling in moisture off its waters and drawing warm air up from the south. A low over western Pennsylvania and a warm frontal boundary over Maryland created instability in a big zone of convection from Northern Virginia on through to Connecticut. Overall, it was a pretty typical pattern…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Raging fires, tornadoes, floods, rising sea levels. Unfortunately, the time will come when many people will be treading water and begging forgiveness for the wrong sins. The real sins of overpopulation, animal agriculture, and mass production and consumption of junk won’t even be on their radar.