Jorge

[poliphilo]

Atirah, Brendan, Chiara, Dennis...

The next name in the sequence of storm-names agreed on by British and Irish meteorologists is Ellen- but instead of Ellen along comes Jorge- breaking the alphabetical sequence and the alternation of genders- so I can only suppose he was born and raised in the USA- and acquired his name there.

He hasn't been as fierce as his brothers and sisters but he's been carrying a lot of rain with him. Our front path- which had all but dried out- is once again a water feature.

So have we learned our lesson about building on flood plains? One of the sites earmarked for development round here is a field in Capel over which some intrepid wild swimmer was pictured doing the crawl. Surely that scheme has been knocked on the head. Surely, surely...

Greta Thunberg was in Bristol yesterday. The rally had been organised by six-formers. The police had said "Please don't," but they did anyway- and to judge by the coverage on the news it went splendidly. I think Thunberg is irrationally apocalyptic and her science questionable but I'm all for pushing ecology to the top of the political agenda- and thrilled to see the authorities moved to one side by schoolkids. Reporters from the BBC and Channel 4 scoured the streets in the interests of balance- looking for naysayers- and came up with one, two, three very ugly, all but inarticulate old men.

P.S. Ailz tells me Jorge comes to us from Iberia not America. Either way he's an interloper.

Comments

[cmcmck]

He's a Spaniard name of hor-gay.

Thunberg is angling for saintly mysticism and a doomsday cult and we all know the track record of saintly female mystics- they tend to end up dead like our very own Holy Maid of Kent.

Her teenage angsty arrogance stands a fair chance of alienating ordinary folk from the hard science of climate change and that isn't good.

The old power station site on the edge of Ironbridge is earmarked for a thousand houses due to a different local authority wanting to build as far away as possible from Shrewsbury. The World Heritage site doesn't appear to have stopped them, but the flooding there saved Ironbridge from far worse and I hope that commonsense will prevail, but that's in short supply these days.

[poliphilo]

We all end up dead in the end.

And if it weren't for the angsty types most "ordinary folk" wouldn't notice there was a problem to be addressed.

Is the power station site in the area that has flooded?

[cmcmck]

It is!

[almsfortheinsane]

Jorge? I wish you luck. I'd like to meet Thunberg. She fascinates me.

[poliphilo]

I think Jorge may have passed over now. He wasn't that fierce. I just wish it would stop raining long enough for the ground to dry out a bit.

[almsfortheinsane]

Thank God, y'all don't need that much rain... I understand that England gets a lot of rain but seriously???

[poliphilo]

Yes, we get a lot of rain, but this is rather more than usual.

[almsfortheinsane]

Oy.

[qatsi]

I'm curious to know if anyone has followed the money on Thunberg. Who's paying for it all? She's a thorn in the side of the strong and powerful, and we need someone to be that, but most teenagers couldn't do it, and not just for personality reasons.

[poliphilo]

Good question. And I don't know the answer.

[almsfortheinsane]

She's got Leo around her lil finger... on the environment thing.