Massive Flooding In Colorado Breaks All Records

Apparently, those heavy rains, floods, and washouts that so inspired my dreams this last weekend are quite epic! All time records for the state of Colorado are being broken right and left. Last year it was fire that caused widespread disaster, and this year its water.

At least a dozen people are dead and hundreds, over a thousand, are missing. Not just cars and roads were washed away, but houses as well. Last I heard, over 19,000 houses were massively damaged. That’s incredible. The most heartbreaking scenes to me were of horses or burros still tied to fences as water came up around them. Who would leave an animal tied up during a rainstorm when flooding seems likely? Its such a senseless and cruel waste of life– because you know those animals are going to die if the waters raise much higher. Sometimes I want to kick people in their skulls.

The dreams I had weren’t psychic since I had them after hearing a smidgen of news (haven’t had TV on since last Thursday until today) but I am surprised at how accurate my dream was as far as the visual scenes of the dream and how severe the situation turned out to be… Very interesting. Like I ”plugged in” to what was going on. I still think it fits a more personal symbolic function in my case, but I’m making note of the eerie way I keyed into it.

I know 3 parties of people that I care about who live in Colorado: my friend Lavender (Purple Flower) from the Circle lives out there now, and my cousin David and his wife and 2 sons, and Alex Ansary– the conspiracy guy who is on a self-imposed “learn to live off the grid” walk-about journey out there. I know Lavender is okay, and Alex checked in today to give us “the news on the ground” out there, including flooded oil fields and how they’re polluting acres upon acres with toxins. But I have yet to hear about my cousin, who lives near the Boulder region where the worst of the flooding took place.

I’m feeling bad for Colorado in general, actually, and maybe especially because the people there tend to be ahead of the pack when it comes to facing reality and being reasonable and negotiating differences and preparing for the future. Colorado is a state that gets a lot of my respect and so this cascade of difficulties that is being visited upon that place and that people just breaks my heart.

On a wider view, I’m looking at this latest global climate change episode and feel amazement at how quickly things are escalating, weather-wise, so close to home. Displacement of people, damage to infrastructure, crop losses, and of course death of humans, wildlife, and domesticated animals. All these things we’re seeing more of all the time. Just goes to show that paying attention and moving to a better place when the opportunity occurs is very important. Be aware of how close you are to low areas or waterways of any kind. Are you flat or on a slight slop or on a hill? That all makes a major difference. Many homes were buried under mudslides or got swept away. Maybe building for the best view isn’t always a good idea. In fact, viewpoint homes are always the first to go in either earthquakes or extreme floods (in slides.) We need to learn to build smarter, that’s for sure! And, always, it comes to location, location, location… This is not to say that we can avoid every disaster, but currently, we’re just plain stupid collectively when it comes to how and where to build.

True to my predictions, in the meanwhile– since we’re on the topic of extreme weather!– I’ve noticed that ever since Sandy walloped the Northeast, suddenly the tide has turned in the mainstream media on Climate Change. That was indeed the turning point I expected and was looking for. As soon as it hit New York City it became REAL in the minds of all those people who were able to pooh-pooh it from Ivory (or rather concrete) Towers. So while I never wished disaster on anyone, a part of me relished smacking and waking up that entire population to reality. SMACK! They get it now.

Soon, we all will.