(((This holiday season, Central Texas is weirdly hot and increasingly on fire.)))
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/27WEATHER.html
Typical climate change article that numbly fails to cite climate change
'Warm weather not going anywhere
Extreme drought contributing to increase in grass fires across region.'
By Miguel Liscano
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
'Extreme drought, grass fires and warm afternoons at the park: It's a Central Texas winter wonderland.
'Austin temperatures hit 81 degrees Monday afternoon, surpassing by 2 degrees the previous record for the date at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport that was set in 1988.
(...)
'Austin is going through a drought that meteorologists consider extreme. (...) Less than 22 inches of rain has fallen this year at the airport, almost a foot below the average, according to the weather service.
'In response, Travis, Hays and Williamson counties have forbidden burning and restricted fireworks sales to try to control the blazes. Still, a rash of grass fires has swept through pockets of Central Texas in the past few days.'
(((Well, at least we Texans have got it better than those Louisiana wretches, who are seriously considering 'relocating' whole towns or propping up every structure on stilts. The're caught between the hammer of the hurricanes and the ghosts of Grandpa; these cats are defining bad climate voodoo.)))
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/27rita.html
Life after Rita, and before, uh, one of those newfangled storms with Greek letters
(((Hey man, who says regional thriller novelists can't foretell the future.)))
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/27kelso.html
ALL SAINTS DAY by Sean Patrick Doles
