WHILE VERMONT IS ALL WET….TEXAS IS BONE DRY
(how perverse is that?)

It seems that Mother Nature has become more cranky and perverse than usual lately, launching tornadoes where they’ve rarely been before in the South, flooding Ol’ Miss river towns in wilder ways, setting a big chunk of Arizona ablaze, clear across into New Mexico, rocking the East Coast with an earthquake, and, just recently, blasting it with a hurricane rampaging from the Carolinas on up to Maine.

And now….while Vermont is all wet….Texas is bone dry. How perverse is that?

Of course, in the aftermath of such natural disasters like these, there are both near term and long term benefits that come from them. That is, the need to repair and rebuild what these events have damaged or destroyed, making employment needs much greater, thus boosting the economy. But, for those folks displaced or damaged by them, it’s still a miserable way to have that happen.

Well, the East Coast in general, and Vermont in particular, will soon dry out, and start getting things back into functioning order again. Texas, on the other hand, is so dried out, it’s praying for a hurricane like Irene to come its way so it can restore its parched and fire-ravaged ranchlands, before these turn into another….Dust Bowl.  Irene’s sister….Katia…. may just do that for it if she barrels right through the West Indies into the Gulf of Mexico, rather than latching on to the Gulf Stream, to ravage the East Coast….again.

For everyone’s sake….let’s hope Texas gets what it’s praying for.

CENTURION