Motor Vehicle Accident in a terrible storm outside Work down in our rapidly changing planet
Staring thru the windows at traffic in the storm. Tuesday the 9th of November 2021.
Earlier today during a unseasonably ferocious storm somehow a driver got their car got turned around the wrong way on the freeway. The driver immediately drove South into Northbound traffic and crashed. Up on the interstate right outside the huge Downtown Seattle REI store where I work in outdoor adventure retail. I-5 was elevated across the way where it bisected the city and funneled traffic onto and off the mighty Ship Canal Bridge. We watched big tow trucks with flashing lights lumber into traffic to clear the wreckage.
What a mess! Don’t know if anyone was killed or how many were injured. Hope not! Ahhh, the ups and downs of the cray-cray City Life! Traffic still hebby-hebby out there, too. May you all be in a jolly good place regardless of circumstances! Life is messy, messy, messy. And goes on for the living. I whip out my smartfone, take a couple of quick pictures, tap in a few notes, and emailed it to myself.
“Sent from my iPhone,” my fone said. Went back to work. The storm drove customers into the building, and we all got busy again.
Stormy traffic.
Waves of superheavy rain and wind as Pineapple Express storms send one moisture-laden atmospheric river after another across the American Pacific Northwest. Learned recently the PNW and especially the State of Washington is the most prone region of the USA for landslides. And the earth is moving up in the hills and mountains, too.
All those idiots who think climate change, especially human-caused global climate disruption is all a commie hoax by shadowy cabals to further regulate our liberties, well, I feel like banging one a old granny skillet atop their noggins. Of course, I really don’t wish to hurt anyone. Just feel frustrated by the widespread stupidity and ignorance among so many otherwise highly intelligent animals.
Ultimately humans tend to believe whatever they want to believe regardless of measurable and replicated scientific evidence and anchor such beliefs with their emotions. We all do, don’t we? I sure do. The difference is learning to think critically, to be vulnerable with one’s feelings, and learn to make crucial distinctions on the way to one’s conclusions. And then be strong and flexible enough to change once new evidence emerges to correct a belief. Can you do so? Will you? It’s a practice. We all mess up sometimes. Just don’t stay inside your mess.
Sky’s mostly clear the next day outside the Downtown Seattle REI.
William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 9 November 2021
Wednesday 19 October 2022
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