It all burned down. Neighbors are sending pictures of destroyed homes and schools. I only have my phone, laptop, and toothbrush. I don't know what to do. Doubt the fire will be better next year, but no clue where to head to. I'm going to get high
Update: we have family a few towns over that are letting us stay, so we're fortunate there
got a few documents and heirlooms in the van and am waiting to see flames cresting the ridge and then I'm loading up the dogs and cats and getting the fuck outta here
pieces of charcoal have been falling from the sky since 3 pm
it comes for some of us before others
as you are now so once was i
as i am now so you shall be
enter the anthropocene and follow me
update: i loaded up the dogs and cats and got the fuck outta there, we'll see in the morning if the farm's still there
update2: farm's still there, fingers crossed pray 4 me
I mashed up two tweets together and I made some edits for clarity.
A mature saguaro takes 125 years to grow. They keep going down around Phoenix. [...] Saguaros open tiny pores on their skin at night to take in CO2. When it's too hot overnight, they can't do it. [...] It's happening all over South Mtn too. Saguaros are native there.
There's also potentially some heat stress from underground issues with the construction and lack of shade. You can see that out in east valley or scottsdale- stressed out saguaros on one side and perfectly healthy, normal flowering and fruiting on the other side of the road in undeveloped acreage.
We could use more shade (especially the leguminous trees).
For fucking years both the Repubs and Democrats have been aware of the science behind Climate Change. They know, their donors know, the military industrial complex knows, the information has been out there.
And both parties have had the opportunity to just blast the airwaves with constant propaganda for years priming people to be shitting their pants in fear over the climate, and they haven't.
They could have been dragging the most dewy eyed, trembling elderly farmers in front of cameras every week and have these sad old Classic Americana™ white men sobbing as they talk about how scared they are of crop failures and famines. They could have been showing piles of dead fish and animals against the backdrop of classic American landmarks. They could have done medical featurettes about how wet bulb temperatures would easily kill people (especially cute old grannies and children!) in the south eastern US.
And they could have kept doing this, all the time, week after week, the most dire do