I joke about the Big Screenwriter In The Sky spinning a yarn that no earthly writer could ever sell, because it’s too fantastically unbelieveable. I mean, who could come up with a character like Donald Trump? Maybe Kurt Vonnegut, but even he would be taxed to capture the lunacy of the real thing.
Nevertheless, the National Weather Bureau informs us that two, count ’em two, storms presently percolating out at sea are set to hit landfall during the Republican National Convention. That would be biblical enough, but with both of them, Marco and Laura, set to converge in the town of Chavin, Louisiana? Ummm…do you think God’s trying to tell us something? Or, Lady Karma at the very least is.
I'm sorry: The two brewing hurricanes in the Gulf are scheduled to hit during the RNC convention AND converge at a town with the same name as the cop who killed Grorge Floyd?
WHO WRITES THIS SHIT????? pic.twitter.com/77YjXQwrRp
— Shawn Levy (@shawnlevy) August 22, 2020
Three natural disasters underway…(1)The largest wildfires in California history, (2)two hurricanes barreling towards the Gulf Coast and (3)the GOP convention…all this week.
Mother nature will provide an unpleasant distraction for number three. Trump just can't get a break.
— I'm here for the pie… (@scottpogue) August 22, 2020
Twin hurricanes mid RNC is basically god endorsing Joe Biden. Change my mind.
— Jonathan (@jdOswald2) August 22, 2020
Trump better stock up on paper towels and start exercising his throwing arm. Two hurricanes are so much bigger than one, in terms of bigness and wetness. Oh, wait — he’ll be too busy with the weather maps and his sharpie. Yeah, if he could just redirect the landfall to Nova Scotia, say, or better yet Mars. And the nukes!! What about the nukes!! Geesh, does Donald have to figure out everything?
I doubt the author of Slaughterhouse Five and Jailbird would have had that kind of trouble thinking this up. Maybe even Ray Bradbury too (100th birthday yesterday or today for him, BTW) but not too many others.
Let’s not forget ‘Cats Cradle’ about the end of the world. As Newt, the child of the father of the atom bomb, noted about the game, “No phucking cat, no phucking cradle’.
I can’t help but notice that one of the storms is named Marco. Perhaps as in Little Marco Rubio as Trump likes to call him?
Seriously, if either (or both) of these storms strengthen (quite possible in the warmer than the Atlantic basis waters of the Gulf) more than forecast this will be worse than Katrina. The devastation will affect a swath of states across the south from TX to Georgia and other states will feel some serious effects. And that’s just under the current forecast. Like I said, if either slows down and has extra time to draw more energy from the warmer waters of the gulf this will be awful beyond contemplation.
Worse, with the exception of Edwards in Louisiana the states that will bear the brunt of these storms have dumbass Governors who dutifully followed the orders from the Dumbass in Chief. Their states have been devastated by Covid far more than had to be the case and their resources have already been stretched to the limit and beyond. On top of all that Trump’s fucking with FEMA has made it as screwed up or more than it was when “Brownie” did his “heckuva job.”
Naturally all these goober voters who wouldn’t vote for a Democrat if their Jeebus himself was running as one will have their hands out DEMANDING that same “gubmint” they insist is too big and spends too much money (because “those” people get some of it) and not see the least bit of their hypocrisy while doing so.
Trump of course doesn’t believe in God any more than I do, but all those RWNJ “Christian” leaders who sold their very souls (although with their prosperity gospel bullshit and lifestyles I wonder whether many of them believe either) might actually think a few “heretical” thoughts such as there are very reason signs like plague and natural disasters striking at the very worst times for their “chosen one”, their new “prophet” Donald Trump and maybe, just maybe ole God is trying to tell them something. As in repent and engage in some serious ass atonement or get used to the idea of roasting in hell.
Marco is in good company – after all, he has Laura (Ingraham) along with him
Hurricanes are a Democrat hoax.
They’ll just go away, like a miracle.
Current forecast has Marco hitting southeast Louisiana on Monday afternoon and heading northwest into Texas as a tropical storm (it’s cat-1 now). Laura looks to hit the TX-LA border Wednesday night and head north across Arkansas.
Louisiana and east Texas are going to get a lot of rain.
Don’t. Mention. Nukes. ?
Maybe the storms will knock out power in state where some of the truest believers are, so the will miss the excitement of the moment. After the news report on the convention, the big, real time thrill will be gone.
Please Hurry Cain and Disable Trump but I think Trump will take out his sharpie and re-route the storm to California.
I saw this video on Twitter – it’s from 2019. Superscooper loading up at Santa Fe Dam and dropping the load. (The dam is east of LA, near I-605, and it’s a small lake. L.A. county leases two of these from Quebec, and they’re based at Van Nuys airport – I used to see them from the train.)
here’s another, with both of them loading up at Santa Fe dam. Different angle – this is from near the west end of the lake.