Apparently most of y'all's are. I look at the map and they tend to cover a heck of a lotta territory!
Ooof. That's a hell of a swing. And, yeah, you are in one of the areas that's warming awful fast. My Michigan friend is experiencing faster warming than we are. Winter has shortened dramatically since she was a child. Our heat wave back in 2011. It was record breaking but 100+ (F) heatwaves weren't ever uncommon in Texas. They seem to be trending toward lasting longer when they happen. And this one dried the state out so bad, we had the worst wildfire season in our history (including the most destructive in state history that ripped past within three miles of my house... my neighborhood *barely* escaped being a pile of ashes). But then last summer was pretty average. The weird thing about it was it started early and ended late. Like it annexed parts of spring and fall.
Yeah. Having bounced around a bit between California, Texas, and Louisiana, I started to realize we don't have any kind of monopoly on "hicks". Oh so liberal California has redneck, reactionary counties in droves. The state of Pennsylvania is often described as a couple of liberal urban centers with Alabama in the middle.
Heh, better hurry, I hear Europe is being closed for repairs.
Well, we bring a lot of it on ourselves. We have a really bad thing about "we're number one" without paying any real attention to
being something that could be called "number one". And I always ask
why do we
need to be "number one" in the first place? Do we win prizes or something?
No country's perfect and every country has plenty worth paying attention and learning from. Having a "self-esteem" bubble you just get lazy and stupid and arrogant about it.
Wait... blaming you all for flooding? What'd they think? You left the lawn sprinklers on too long?