Riding a bicycle in New York’s Central Park on Sunday, September 24, with a nice breeze blowing across my face and through my hair, ideal summer weather, with the temperature hovering in the mid-to-high 80s, I couldn’t help reflect on the weather and Mother Nature’s wrath America has experienced since I was getting ready to leave Hong Kong on September 12.
Watching the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the worst storm to ever hit Florida, on 9/11, as the U.S. commemorated the worst terrorist attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon 16 years earlier – the night before I got on a plane to head to the U.S., just as I was on 9/11, triggered weird see-saw emotions. I wrote about my 9/11 experience in Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder published in 2004, that opened with Alan Jackson’s song Where were You When the World Stopped Turning?
How many first unprecedented disasters do We the Maids have to clean up and pay for before We the People wake up?
The destruction and devastation that We the People experienced with Hurricane’s Harvey, Irma, Jose, Maria – and will continue to endure with their successors – as We the Maids cleaned up the mess and paid for it with our 99% of dollars that wound up in the pockets of the 1%, does beg the question why there are climate change doubters?
More than 5.8 million Floridians and all of Puerto Rico without power? Talk about keeping We the Maids in the dark.
Florida is the fourth most-important state in the Union in terms of economic income, clout and politics. The state that propelled George W. Bush into the White House and kept Al Gore, the Prophet of Climate Change, on the political sidelines.
Houston, America’s fourth largest city, in the Bush’s home state of Texas, was subjected to a brutal frontal attack by Hurricane Harvey. Hmmm, maybe there is some truth to Chinese numerology that the number 4 is deadly. Mother Nature and her wrath demonstrated it’s deadly wrath.
I was in Los Angeles on September 18, when an earthquake hit the City of Angeles, followed by the devastating earthquake that hit Mexico City the next day.
It was nice to be in New York City enjoying an ideal summer day riding a bike in Central Park in late September wondering why Climate Change is still being debated.