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Hurricane Irene left millions of people without power, and they don't expect to have it all restored for maybe a week or longer. Basements were flooded, and businesses are still shut down. Bridges have been washed away and people's lives have been left to try and pick up the pieces. The government will give you a 'loan' to help you out, but I'm sure they'll be there to collect when you have to start paying it back. It's like it's "Us Against Them" no matter what situation it is.
I really believe there is something going on in our world that we don't see the whole picture of. For instance like a previous article, The Unemployed Need Not Apply written by Altruist. I really had no idea how "big" the homeless camps really were, and that the unemployed are helping to fill them up or make new ones.
It's not just the economy I'm speaking of, it's society and the earth itself that are changing. People are either nice and kind or they are just rude and selfish, and the ones who are in between, are just trying to get by with what they have. And this is happening all over the world, it's not just the United States. Almost the entire world is at a 10% or above unemployment rate and it's not getting any better. It's feels like things are becoming more dismal, and more separated as tragic events unravel. Like I said it's "Us Against Them", the big corporations and governments.
The earth's weather is becoming more strange as the years go on. The earthquakes in Japan, Virginia, Colorado, and a 6.8 outside of Australia today. The next hurricane coming is Jose, who Irene kind of weakened so they don't expect him to last long. However the next one 'Katia' just coming off of Africa, would have been named "Katrina" if that name hadn't been retired back in 2005. Let's hope she isn't as powerful as Katrina was. Droughts in Texas, 4 "Haboob's" (dust storms) in Arizona just this month. Flooding in Chicago, tornado records in the mid-west, temperatures in the north are hotter than they've been in years. It's either one extreme or the other lately, it's crazy. There are green meadows and running rivers where glaciers use to be, and places that had an abundance of water are drying up.
Maybe it's just me, or just a coincidence, that the economy is so bad, that the weather seems to be playing a big role in making things worse. I'm not sure what's going on, but I sometimes feel like that old farmer standing outside looking into the blue sky, and just 'knows' there's a big storm coming. Here are two pics of a before and after of Pederson Glacier, and there are alot more places like this in the world.