Floods in Burma, earthquakes in China, tornadoes here. Impending famine with the rice crop failure. What a year.

And yet... there's no Global Warming in some people's minds.

Modern Man seems to forget evey now and again that Mother Nature is also the Bitch Godddess, answerable to no mortal. So every now and again She reminds us with the back of her hand.

agamisu was in Tokyo for a series of nasty quakes a few days earlier (he was, like a perfect martini, shaken but dry). It makes me wonder when the big one's going to hit this coast. Despite what people think, we've got a number of potentially ugly fault lines just waiting to get jiggy...