Selfish Thoughts of a Man on Hurricane Path

So I'm sitting here watching endless coverage of the potential path of Rita, and I'm remembering the countless pictures of the destruction of Katrina, and all I can think of is that I have Austin City Limits Festival tickets this weekend that this whole hurricane thing is really messing with. How selfish is that? I know, but look... I'm tired of this weather crap. I'm ready to move to mudslides, earthquakes and wildfires, and away from hurricanes and floods. It's my frickin' aniversary this weekend, and last year, well, I had to wait three days to leave on my honeymoon because of the series of hurricanes in Florida.

Here's why I'm tired of this crap... it seems fairly obvious to me that this heightened hurricane activity is part of a global climate shift that we, as usual, are DOING NOTHING ABOUT! We drive our giant cars guzzling gasoline and refuse to build public transportation or a national/state-wide train systems (how I would have loved my 'road' trip to be a 'track' trip) and we pretend we aren't melting the ice caps and destroying the ozone... and then we're like 'why are the hurricanes so bad' or 'why is texas in the middle of a drought' or 'why are there more days over 100 degrees each successive year.' And then there are all these faux scientists saying this has nothing to do with global warming an that it is just a twenty year natural cycle. There may be cycles like that, but if you look back 20 years ago or 40 or 60 whenever these supposed cycles were back at their height, there has never been this many category 4 and 5 hurricanes in a two year period as there has been 2004-05, and we've still got a month to go. Let me repeat that: never. It has never been this bad.

And we spent $200 on our fricking ACL Fest tickets and have been looking forward to it for months. If no one else cares enough to stop giving tax breaks to car companies actively repressing electric cars, then why should I care about the side effects of their disregard. Don't get me wrong, my heart goes out to the people, all the individuals hurt by the hurricane, but its a shame that the weather can't be a little more focused and take out the places and people that deserve it... like all the politicians in DC who come up with tax breaks for companies hurt by the hurricane... like oh, Exxon. So the hurricane may be shifting away from a headon with Austin, and my precious festival will go on, but if we are going to stir everyone into uproar, let's get something out of it. Let's get some people really thinking about the world we are living in and what we can do to preserve it, rather than aggravate it.