Thursday, June 12, 2008

The Day After Tomorrow





It was a fictitious movie about an abrupt and extremely severe climate change. The imdb synopsis reads:

“This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age.”

But that was just fiction. It was a Hollywood over dramatized version of what could one day happen eons from now.

Riiiiiigghhht.

This week the eastern portion of the U.S. has had some pretty high temps. Not necessarily unusual for summer time but I’ve heard the word “sweltering” from a few of the folks out that way.

The mid-west has spent the last two weeks surviving some horrible flood conditions. Entire communities and towns have been washed away.

A month ago, in Riverside California (just outside of L.A.) they had tornadoes.

Yesterday it was colder here (in Seattle) than it was in Siberia.

But as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Or in this case 226. Take a look at the shots that were taken by a co-workers friend on Tuesday. The photos were taken in Pullman Washington. If the name of this town sounds familiar that’s because it is the home to Washington State University.

Nuff Said!

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