"On Tuesday, weather conditions in many parts of the country intensified, with heavy rain drenching parts of the East Coast while blizzard conditions walloped the Pacific Northwest and tornadoes ripped through the South."…
…sez the New York Times this morning,
And all that walloping and ripping (what happened to smiting?) has left half a million people, mostly on the East Coast, without power, also sez.
Climate change, the prevailing wisdom holds, will bring weather even more turbulent. So how many more will be left without light, heat (it is December after all), refrigeration, transportation, communications, and hair dryers in our impending electric future?
Plenty more, one supposes, unless somebody builds a better grid.
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