degringolade

Inside Portland City Limits

It's a bit chilly in Portland today (hence the title), This is odd because a couple of days ago I received a text telling me of impending "bad weather doom" which, as normal, I ignored because the folks here in stumptown tend to lose their shit anytime anything other than rain occurs (an truthfully, the don't do all that well in rain either).

This comes down to the following. The boys crying wolf have taken over "news" at all levels and it seems that the only way they can establish their "market share" is to make everything frantic.

But I have become an aficionado of crisis reporting. I do pay attention to the warnings as they come in, I just don't listen to the shrieking and pearl-clutching and try to dig up the data and make my own evaluations. Bad weather happens. I remember back in 2010 when the winds coming out of the gorge were over 90MPH. I remember the Columbia well above flood stage, I remember the earth moving under my feet in Vancouver when the Seattle earthquake went off. I can see Mount Saint Helens with it's blown off lid on clear days.

The weather is never the same regardless of timescale. The weather is changing in a big way but in a time frame where folks won't see the end of it. All we can do as individuals and species is deal with it and adapt. Do you really think that you (we) are exempt for the ideas outlined in "On the origin of Species".