22-02-2023, 05:21 PM
We had over two years of thinking time during covid. Lots of talk about how we could prepare for a new normal, as we watched the appalling images from around the world. And then the covid thing started to fade and we came back into the 'new normal' that soon looked pretty indistinguishable from the old one for most of us.
I wonder how long it will be, for those of us who have escaped the traumatising experience of the cyclone, to slide back into the same old same old, pretending king tides are an unusual thing, and flooding is down to old infrastructure, landslips down to some other folk cutting down trees or building too close to the edge.
So long as it isn't our property. Our family photos ruined. Our grandkids on their roofs.
So we're okay, Jack., while the tide turns.
I wonder how long it will be, for those of us who have escaped the traumatising experience of the cyclone, to slide back into the same old same old, pretending king tides are an unusual thing, and flooding is down to old infrastructure, landslips down to some other folk cutting down trees or building too close to the edge.
So long as it isn't our property. Our family photos ruined. Our grandkids on their roofs.
So we're okay, Jack., while the tide turns.