Chicago flooding

As the weather is STILL trying to decide wether or not to be summer or winter a huge rain storm sweaps through the Chicago area. Just over night about 5 inches made its way to the ground not only watering the ground, hopefully for  awarm summer, but also causing a water main to break. Which in turn turnt into a sink hole with at least 3 cars inside of it.

The storm that sweap through the chicago area, also other areas, left hundreds of dollars in damage. Not only did a water main pipe broke, but also flooding some of the town. The Mayor put into effect a state of emergency and some people were forced to leave there homes until after the storm had passed. Not only are cars incapable of driving on about 7 main streets but many flights how to be cancelled inorder to preserve safety for those that may be boarding the flights because of the height of the water.

People in Chicago are doing the best they can to deal with this issue, but there is only soo much they can do to try and control what happens with this situation. Alot of schools are closed due to flooding and not being able to pick up the children. People within chicago have also been urged to take minimual amount of showers, dishes, and laundry until the flooding has gone down and the water main has been fixed.

The Climythology of America

As the world has always been quilty of, there are myths within are Nation. Which, is a common thing to happen, since the world is incappable of completly keeping something completly true. Words get miss used and no one really fixes them.
The Equal-Latitude Myth
Years ago the New settlers of this Nation were trying to prodict the weather to expect within the summer and winter days, and the predicts were wrong. Not understanding why the climate wasnt comming out the way they were predicting because they were at the same altitude as Spain, yet they ended up with something completly different. Eventually they gave up on that idea.

Showing a picture of altitude which they were using to guess the weather.

This is one of the few Myths that were talked about within the story. Myths are evovled because people want answers as to why something is happening. As a human race we are not to happy about the idea of not knowing. If something is unknown, it is thought to be scary. Which is not true, it just makes things harder on us. As we begin to grow and continue to grow we try adn figure things out. Trying to understand why things are happening the way they are. Which certain things can not be distinguished within a little amount of time yet, we try and rush the information as fast as possible. As long as it is close, to the point that there are minimual amount of issues, then it is okay to pass as a "theory". Which in turn comes out to be false possibly, at some point in time. We try to better the enviorment but at the same time we are harming what is dear to use.

Inconvient Truth

In the movie the inconveint truth I do understand what Al Gore is trying to get at. Just growing up I can tell a difference in the weather pattern....And im only 18 years old. The difference between storms now and storms from when I was 10 are totally different. The tornados are strong and the rain falls harder.

this is from April 14, 2012

Tornados are begging to come earlier and earlier. The weather is so unbalanced that it gives bigger chances for natural disasters to hit. For years movies have shown something horrible happenign to the world to make it end and only a select handful or two are left to try adn survive. What if these "imaginary deaths" come to reality? Now im not talking about the zombie things, but I mean typhoons in golfing a whole city under water and making its way to the rest of the states. New Orleans was already attacked by water, only imagine if the storm reached its righest potential. It ripped that city apart and it was only a category 3, which the walls were suppose to be able with stand and they were not able to stand up to the job that they needed to.

Not only is where the walls not capable of helping but, neither were the people. Thousands didnt listen to the warning and stayed within the city believing that they would be able to rid it out. Comming to find out, the ride was ALOT worse than anyone could of predicted. To me, it seems movie like. This would of been an amazing movie, because it happend in real life, it is horrible! Other states did not realize how bad this truely was until soo many bad things had happend. The sewage began to backup, homes were destroyed, along with hundreds were killed, and many were raped. As human beings we were born with "survival of the fittest" but, today we abuse to gain for ourselves. No matter who we are hurting, and why. As a nation we could not surive a natural disaster to occur all across our land. Yet we ignore the crisis going on else where because out of sight out of mind right? As i said before, because of our negligance, we will be having ALOT more natural disasters comming our way. If we do not fix and clena up the mess WE ALL have made, then maybe we may be living a movie. Feeling soo unrealistic, but being so real.

Earth's Eye

In the wya of life now, people claim they are for helping mother nature and perserving it, but in reality we are just hurting it just as much possibly even more. As the world begins to claim that it is turnign a new lead adn helping slow down the amount of "bad" material that the nation is using, as a nation, we have failed. Bottled water is supposably better, what about the plastic the bottles are made of? How many people really recycle? How many times can one plastic bottle really be recycled?

this all could of been recycled more, yet ends up in the ocean and/or on some different island...out of sight, out of mind right?
In 2012 my family and I made a trip out to Cozumel and Progresso Mexico. We got to stay on a cruise boat that took us from new orleans to the docking port in mexico. An the way over we are all the food we wanted, had all the drinks we wanted, no worries about anything. Food was available 24/7. When we got off we could see that the country, Mexico, is a poor place to live. The people that live within the community try the hardest to get money for there families.  As we were trying to leave to ge tback to the boat a couple store owners were trying to get us to by things. I finally bought some maraca's and paid with a 10, the lady rain around to alot of stores trying to get change. No one really had change for it within the strip of shops. If getting money is this hard, then how are they suppose to supply food for there families? Understanding the hard ship that is going on within lots of communities can help someone know why some communities are so trashed. Also at the same time tho knowing is other communities chances to reach out and help the communities will garbage build up and bad living conditions.

Pollution

Everyone has been noticing and experiancing the climate changes that been happening like crazy. Ecspecially those who live within the boarder lines of Illinois. The winter has been a very....dramatic changing. Years ago winters use to be freezing and horribly windy, ecspecially in Chicago, IL. This year tho...not soo much. Granted, yes there was the winds going, like there usually is. But this winter, what happend to all the snow? We did get a little bit, but as soon as it all settled, it all melted away! The snow wasn't able to stay for very long. The climate is deffinatly changing, and honestly it is for teh worst. As a nation, we needed a hard cold winter to get ride of all the bugs/viruses that are going around. Also to get rid of all the bugs that are possibly still alive, for example, the misquitos need to die from the strain of dieseases that they are carrying. The summer, is more than likely going to be hotter than it ever has, and that is going to cause alot of issues that we may not be able to know how to handle. Both the Goverment and the people are beggining to find ways to help stop some of the polluting we have and are creating. A not so new idea of Nuclear Power Plants has came bakc into the minds of people, but many still do not like the idea. The Power Plants will help decrease some of the pollution sent into the air and help cut back on some of the fossil fuels. Which as millions are aware that we do not have very much left. As the price of it will not go up when gas and coal prices begin to soar and how much it varies.

Those how have watched the Simpsons before know of the job that the husband, Homer Simpson holds within the entire series. They do throw out alot of jokes and puns about the Power Plant, but to a certain extent they are serious. The things that are produced by the Power Plant do use alot less amount of pollution, but most of the materials they produce, are more than likely to be radioactive to a certain degree. After awhile, the radioactivity can not only hurt the people that are incontact with the materials but also the wild life that is around and near it. The Simpsons also produced a movie, which of course please keep in mind that The Simpsons is a cartoon show, not to be taken seriously. The little things that they add to the show/movie, can possibly happen. I believe that they are good example, of both the extreems and the reality. Within the movie the wild life (water life) began to be mutated and the entire had to be shut down because of the wrongfully dumping being down by both the commuinity and the Nuclear Power Plant.

Which of course this is a dramatization, but the wrongful dumping and radioactive material\waste that comes with this plant not only can hurt the people but also the enviorment.
The product that comes out of the plant can be low-level radioactive but the waste that comes out is horrivly radioactive. The waste that is produced by these plants need to go somewhere but the problem is no matter where you put the waste, it WILL eventually eat through the containers and will reach to the enviorment. We literally have no where to put this harmful product because the more and more you produce of it, the more and more room you need, but we already have no clue what to do with the amount we have...How are we rightfully going to add more to that problem. As a world we have become dependant on things that not only hurt us but also hurt the world around us. The amount of pollution and toxic material we produce should be unethical, but we care more about what we want now then in the long run. Our world we know is very slowly, but surely begginning to fall apart, and we have no clue what to do about it.

Climate out of control

A couple days ago I seen a paper that had an article called "Climate out of Control", I just assumed its everyone making a big deal out of things, like usual. Now that I stop and think about it, the weather is insanely everywhere. The Kankakee area weather not only is jumping tempuratues, but also jumping weather conditions. Just the other day freezing rain was comming down. Now I may be young, but at the age of 18 I have never delt with anything really like that. Yeah, we've all delt with hail, but they are two different things. Now all of a sudden the weathers shifting to 60 degrees and possibley even thunderstroms. In January? Could it mean Tornado's too?

The weather shifting soo much I believe is a preview of what is to happen when the summer starts comming around. I believe that their will be many dry hot humid days. Personally I also believe that their will be lots of natural disaster happening this year. People are not only going to be afraid of whats going to happen to them but also I think their are going to be alot of crazy things that people are going to make up. Like how the world was suppose to end on 12/12/12.......

Which, as we all know, did not happen. There has been soo many ideas that we are suppose to die, for example;

As crazy as these may seem, thousands of people believed in these. It is just someone way of finding something to blaim and then having something to fall back on to some what..."comfort" them incase it did happen. As the weather changes ways that we are not use to and shouldn't as humans we begin to get scaired because we are facing the unknown.

Response to, "The New Wilderness Land Grab"

The story is set around a bench of different people, not as main characters, but as examples of how people are responding to the enviormental issue differently. The story aslo reveals to the reader about some of the things people are doing to both help and make the issues look less important than they really are. Some of the people talked about within the story glorified but others were made to look like they werent really interested in helping the enviorment, just using the issue for their own benefit. It maybe true about some people, but in reality, even if at the time it was for personal gain, the efforts opened the eyes of thousands. Former President Al Gore was one who mainly focused on Global Warming, instead of enviorments. Will former Presidnet Clinton focused on the forest and help save some of the foests. Granted the story does state, "Presidential politics could help the cause as well. With a shove from the man who hopes to succeed him and an eye on his legacy,..." I feel that the Author was crizising the former Presidents and was, in a way, saying that they did not do enough. They opened the eyes of millions. Without them there really wouldn't of been as big of a push as there has been. People would of just believed that it was anouther consperiacy. We all know of Global Warming, and we are now dealing with the effects on the enviorment.

Also noticing all the animals that no longer have a home coming into cities and urban areas inseach of new food forces and/or new homes. After everything that has been happening many would try to be comming up with their owbn theroies of why things are happening the way they are. Scientist and the "celeberties" have helped open the publics eyes to the issues that are surrounding us. Those that take a step forward and actually try to get people to join the problem, or even just letting others know about the issue should get more credit than they are given. In all honesty I found this story very boring and really hard to keep reading. Too many number were thrown within the short story. I couldnt stay focused beacuse personally, I did not find the story at all appealing.