Got up this morning and put the radio on and probably will be listening to coverage of the Storm Sandy, or Super Storm Sandy, which has already sunken the HMS Bounty pirate ship, and is on the way to New York, New Jersey... the eastern sea board ... all day. And night.
The new York subways are shut down, so is Wall street, so are thousands of air flights, and listening to Heraldo Rivera broadcasting from new York this morning, it sounds as if the streets are deserted, with just a few dare devil cab drivers determined to make their fares. Videos show sea foam whipped up by the wind covering beaches like snow. Millions of people have loaded up on emergency supplies of food and water, there's been a run on flashlights and other survival gear, but even with shelters open, it seems to me that the majority must simply STAY PUT. Who can even afford the gas prices and the motel rooms to flee?
I'm thinking about Art Bell, the radio host who began Coast to Coast AM and was on the air most nights for maybe a decade, and Whitley Streiber, the author of Communion and other UFO Abductee themed books, who with Art wrote a book called THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM. (I was a huge fan of Art Bell!)
I ordered this book from my library several years back and finally it came in. I settled back on the sofa to read the book on a day off, and did so cover to cover without any television or radio or phone on to interrupt my concentration. The book had short novelesque chapters between science - or alternative science - fact. I was very impressed with it.
It proposed that when the Gulf Stream and Atlantic Ocean current, which is the result of variant water temperatures reacting to each other, changes, the result is not global warming but a rapidly occurring ice age. According to this theory, snowfall would make much of the Northern Hemisphere unlivable. When I finished the book, I turned on the radio to hear, shockingly, that the Tsumani had just hit Thailand.
WHITLEY STRIEBER's UNKNOWN COUNTRY link here for a better explaination.
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