Reporting in from South Central Texas. Historically, we average 32 inches of rain yearly. Currently negative 62 inches of rain compared to average over the past six years.
Bad but not as bad as the drought of 1950-1957 where it was negative 92 inches of rain. I remember as a kid my father and uncles talking about that one.

The TX drought in the ’50s was so bad it got mentioned in a song. The Merry Little Minuet: THE KINGSTON TRIO

They’re rioting in Africa
They’re starving in Spain
There’s hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain

The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The french hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don’t like anybody very much!!

But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away!!

They’re rioting in Africa
There’s strife in Iran
What nature doesn’t so to us
Will be done by our fellow man

Still true 6 decades later, except for “starving in Spain.” I doubt that even in the 1950s they were starving in Spain—Spain’s 2 plus-decade economic boom began in the 1950s—but you needed something to rhyme w “rain.” Maybe “Franco’s still in Spain,”(SNL Franco is still dead…) though my opinion of Franco’s still being in Spain has changed from that being a bad thing to being a good thing.

Two neighbors have complained to me that this summer is really hot. My reply is that it’s always been hot in Texas in the summer. At least we don’t have the drought of 2011-2012, where the daily high was above 100 for over three months.

The thing we say here is: if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes, it’ll change. Probably true. When summer comes, it’ll be blazing hot with lots of humidity, and people will be missing these cool spring days.

In other words, as the doggerel goes:

“As a rule, a man’s a fool
When it’s hot, he wants it cool;

When it’s cool, he wants it hot,
What it is, he wants it not.”

I think that’s a photoshop, because the woman carrying it isn’t lying bleeding on the ground.

But a lot of us thought the same at the big “immigration” protests under Bush, and the Word went out to switch to American flags because of the negative feedback they were getting: if you want to stay in America so badly why are you carrying Mexican flags?

https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1931953269775188449

Come to think of it, I have some relations in Massachusetts….

Yeah, you know the riots are “spontaneous”–and definitely not organized and pre-planned–when all of the protest signs have been run off at some print shop, and conveniently stapled to sticks, and trucks drop off pallets of bricks, or easily broken up cement blocks at strategic points for the rioters to have access to, so that they can use them as missiles.

Bye.

We don’t know what caused the ice ages, nor why they ended.

Raining on the parade of tech knowledge & progress, here’s a good note about how the World As We Know It, is ending. (Or is that reigning in?)
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ten-warning-signs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wm1qp&triedRedirect=true