Trump, Bringing Back Coal, While It Rains

WHERE I LIVE, in the American mid south, March was a drought month. We had a couple of six inch snowfalls in January and February, some rain in late February then, nothing, for nearly a month, the month of March. Never in my life, that I can remember, had I experienced a March drought. They nearly always happen in the summer, usually August. Then, early April came,and so did rain. A vast storm system worked the normal path up through the Gulf of Mexico, (not the Gulf of America) and dumped a foot of rain on Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee, as it headed east. For four straight days, the wind blew like a hurricane in the making. Lightening flashes camefrom the south. then thunder. Then, a deluge of sideways rain, with the wind, always the wind. This happened about once an hour, for what I think was four days, but what seemed like an eternity. Again, I had never experienced anything like it, this endless cavalcade of marching thunder storms, one....after.....another. Ther must have been a total of about forty of them over a four day period. These massive storm systems we have nowadays all leave a trail of billions of dollars of damage across much of the country. The weather events and patterns, and teh general cliamte where I live, has become nearly unrecogniable to me, as it has many other people. As it has all over the world, evidently. Extreme proonged droughts, then, a veritable deluge of destructive storms and rain. When the storms finally stop, we venture outside and clean up the mess. On my flatscreen, Trump is inside, with several rows of blue collar guys, coal miners, standing behind him, looking adoring. Trump announces that he intends to "bring back coal", like like he has long promised. No more of this war on America's most abundant, cheapest, and therefore best source of energy. To hell with this wind and solar B S. With about three executive orders, signed with a magic marker right there with the guys, one which removes all federal regulations currently inhibiting coal mining, then, a couple more which make the American government virtually a staunch supporter an partner of coal mining. All this, despite the simple free market fact that both wind and solar are already cheaper, more cost effective, and better in many other ways than coal, and fossil fules in general. Despite the inconvenient little fact that using fossil fuels will kill the ecosystem, and all life on Earth, if we don't stop. The relationshi between teh wachy weather where I live, and teh image of Trump on the flatscreen bringing back coal is obvious, to anbody except Trup supporters and conservatives. The mood at Trump's coal party was ebullient. Everybody was happy, thrilled, as if America had just been saved from liberal progressive insanity,which, to conservatives, it has. We the American people have elected a president, a government, an ideology according to which climate change is a hoax, in which the carbon it adds to the atmosphere is either imaginary or irrelevant. And we will live with the consequences of that choice, as we always do.