Hi!
Watching how Fukushima was unexpectedly devastated was a sobering experience last year as was the destruction of Christchurch in New Zealand.
This got me thinking about our own vulnerability. Fact is that a hurricane hitting Grand Bend and Western /Southern Ontario is more than feasible given past experience! Now its probable and getting distinctly so!
The signs are already there that a freak storm enjoys warm waters such as have been building up this winter over the great lakes and further north! Should we also get a series of Caribbean heat waves, we have to consider that Western Ontario is once again vulnerable to increased threat from hurricane and tornado occurences.
We saw what happened in Goderich last year.
Our biggest threat here is possibly hurricane damage. No one can put a probability on such storms, but my guess is that they have gone up!
1. This week, we have just been bombarded with a record breaking heat generating solar storm and others will continue to hit earth as the sun spot electrical storm cycle rises to its peak in 2012 and 2013! Watch out for sun related cancer!
2. Tornado alley has moved north, and during this spring/summer we may see higher frequency of tornados in our region.
3. There is a history of very large destructive storms hitting Western and Southern Ontario about once in 50 years. We are overdue.
4. A hurricane is so infrequent that no one believes one will ever strike.
What precautions can we take?
It's important just to realize that a hurricane here is feasible and that the likelihood because of warm waters has increased dramatically.
Our biggest concern would be Bruce Nuclear! What are the risks if it were to be hit very hard by 200 mph winds? Can we see the cost of nuclear fall out stretching all the way across Ontario towards the golden horseshoe?
Date: 9 March 2012 10:31:06 AM EST
Subject: Fukushima Anniversary: How Climate Change Endangers Nuclear Safety
Is Ontario, Canada prepared for a hurricane off Lake Huron combined with a hot 2012 summer bringing hot Caribbean air north? I wonder whether Western Ontario will be habitable in three years time? Scratching your fears or scratching at a hidden truth of Bruce Nuclear's vulnerability to a hurricane as occured with Hazel in 1956! Are you ready for such a storm?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/fukushima-anniversary-nuclear-disaster-extreme-climate-events_n_1331977.html?ref=mostpopular
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT