PRAY FOR RAIN: No, really. Durham has, depending on who you believe, somewhere between 70-90 days of water left. Some people say it's closer to six months, which is possible. It's rained twice, I think, since the beginning of September. It needs to rain a lot, and soon--because if there's not a crisis this winter, there'll be one this summer.
I don't, as a general rule, do the disaster-fetishization thing: I'm not so worried about global warming or peak oil, real though those phenomena may be; my understanding of the probabilistic outcomes for each is 'it's complicated.' I'll hold off another month on making an analogy to The Plague. It looks like it might rain three days this week, and the temperature is finally supposed to drop. But five minutes thinking about the logistics of the very near future: not pleasant.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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