It's the last minute of my birthday and it was great! Thank you for celebrating with me. :)
It has been raining in New York for the last three consecutive days. Is this a sign of climate change?
@enkasongwriter A sign of climate change (that scientists have been predicting for well over 20 years) is that the carbon molecule (and other greenhouse gasses, like methane), hold water longer in the atmosphere. Holding water longer means longer periods of drought and longer periods of rain.
It is not possible to determine if three days of rain or any anomalous periods of weather is due to climate change or just normal fluctuations. We have to look at the whole season and compare it to past years. Scientists are always checking for trends in warming, drought, flood, weather fluctuations and storms to see if human-made climate change is really happening. They have found overall, extreme warming, extreme drought, and extreme storms accelerating over the past twenty-five years. So we know climate change is very real, but we won't know if these three days of rain which have followed weeks of drought, are part of the trend. I feel it is.
@jeanne-mayell More than ten years ago, I experienced a June full of rain before becoming normal by July.
New York City has moved to ranked-choice voting this year for the mayoral elections.
So I decided to chill in the lounge right now.
I should be on a plane that would have left a few minutes ago but as I was walking down my moms hallway with my luggage to get to the car and leave for the airport, I got a text it was delayed 55 minutes.
So I left my things by the front door and took a walk in the neighborhood for a half hour and chilled a bit.
Then at the right time I began my trek down the hall again to the door ready to leave and I was notified by text again that it was delayed an additional 25 minutes.
So I took a seat on the downstairs couch and chatted with my daughter for awhile and made the trek through the door to the car. Made it 4 blocks when text 3 came in.
Delayed another hour. The plane has yet to leave it’s current location.
So we turned around and came back home.
First flight since the pandemic and strangely some things never change right? Haha
If you were part of the Circle of Light Meditation tonight wishing me a safe journey, I believe your prayers are keeping me from being in an unsafe situation so thank you.
We are now going to depart 3. 5 hours late.
Because nothing is opened in our terminal our airline just brought us water and snacks. Water is key because you can’t bring any past security, you can’t access fountains and all restaurants/ shops are closed.
people had been calm but some are really having a struggle. And even the gate agent is often seen wearing her mask below her nose, she is headed home, must have been a long day.
I am simply watch a part of life I haven’t seen in ages. Frustrated passengers due to repeated flight delays.
The mask requirement and no access to water or food part is the wild card at play.
I am so happy I was able to be at meditation tonight because I am still pretty chill even while wearing a hot stuffy mask. 12:30 am arrival hear we come.
Oh goodness. EMT’s are here now assisting a deplaning passenger from my arriving flight. Sending her some healing energy.
Did I really miss flying?
I am going to need to rethink that!
@lovendures, while travel these days can be more than trying, I hope that you have arrived safely at your destination, that your time away is more than worth the inconvenience of the journey, and that the trip home is safe & hassle free.
Thank you Cindy!
I know your words were sent with much care and love.
I landed a little after 12:40am back home. I helped drive my daughter out to where she will live for the summer, spent a few days there and few home. It was a good trip. A crazy "first flight" since pre-Pandemic times but rather normalizing I guess.
I did receive a travel voucher for a future flight. That was a great and pleasant surprise.