A Foot Note to yesterday, today

 At 8:30 AM we drove over to see the mayor to get our annual life/living verification certificate to "prove" we are alive and worthy of receiving our pensions.

Front Street and Queen Street intersection was flooded to approx 10 to 15cm of water from a heavy rain in the night. I do not know if water levels were ever higher - probably. The Mayor had been informed.

So we are living in the here and now. This is change, changing increasingly rapidly. I think that in the next chapter I'll write just a little about how "we" know, how the changes are measured and to what precision. The problem of predicting still remains but a look back in history indicates we underestimate how rapid this change is occurring.

So recently Crawford Lake has been in the news.

Whether we like it or not, it does contain evidence of the "Hand of Man", or the  indication of entering the Anthropocene - choose a name, like epoch, eon, or simply an event.

How will "we" manage?

Was this how the dinosaurs experienced that moment 65 million years ago?

Or will we find a  silver lining?

We can and must tell - one finger in the dyke can stop the flooding there.

Actually  You don’t use a finger, you use a boat.

WOB