Sailer writes best when he writes about California. He lives there and PAYS ATTENTION to both current events and local history. He doesn’t blow up verb aspect by conflating permanent with temporary or vice versa.
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In Los Angeles, Hurricane Hilary, the first since 1939, has been a summer rarity but so far no more severe than days in January and February this year that saw five inches come down. It has been much less windy than I expected.
I’m looking forward to finding out what kind of plants bloom in the hills after getting drenched in August. A rare May downpour leads to some unusual and spectacular blooms in June, so who knows what a wet August will bring?
I wonder how much bigger the Salton Sea southeast of Palm Springs will be tomorrow? In 1900, the lowest point in the United States was not Death Valley like it is today, but further south. But then the Colorado River overflowed its banks and formed a large lake in the depression.
Apparently, this kind of thing has happened every century or two over the last 1000 years, and then the Salton Sea turns from fresh water to salt water and then dries up.
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Before the era of consolidation, local newspapers and local radio stations carried deep local memory and perspective. Now all “journalists” are fungible and securitized, like athletes and corporations and beauty pageants. Local depth and local memory are impossible when every employee and executive is blowing around constantly to seek higher status positions, and when everyone who holds still for a moment is desperately clinging to the nearest pillar of globalist orthodoxy.
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