Stormy (and scary) weather

At first, it was just sort of strange and sometimes annoying. Something you thought maybe would go away. Something to say "wow that was a rainy October." Or "the weather that year sure was strange."

Now, with us greeting the third atypical season of the year with the second day of the most recent "spontaneous" thunderstorm (complete with fierce lightning and 2 to 3 inch per hour downpours), now as I reflect on the creepy local weather (which feels like an echo of unfortunate national and global instances of fucked up weather related shit), it undeniably feels like something is very wrong.

It feels like we broke the weather.

Kinda makes you want to go out and tag an SUV, doesn't it? Better watch out though. SUV vandalism is not only a federal offense these days, it is a crime on the same scale as the 9/11/01 attacks. Just the thought of SUV vandalism is enough to raise at least as much community outrage as child rape. How fucked up is that?

Yep, if I were to go out and spray paint "Avarice" onto the hood of a Ford Expander or whatever the fuck they're called, I would deserve to die horribly according to some. I can't imagine what the motivation for buying and driving an SUV is, especially now that gas costs so much. For those of you who have never driven something like this, here's a fuel economy table, modified, from Wikipedia*.

			Type										Combined fuel economy
			SUVs										19.19 mpg 12.25 l/100 km
			Minivans										20.36 mpg 11.55 l/100 km
			Family sedans										26.94 mpg 8.73 l/100 km
			Honda Insight										63 mpg 3.73 l/100 km

*Wikipedia gives theautochannel.com as the source for this info.

I haven't read this yet but I am planning to. It's a regional climate report called the New England Regional Assessment Report (description from website below).
The New England Regional Assessment (NERA) is one of 16 regional assessments, conducted for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), as part of the National Assessment of climate change impacts on the United States. The National Assessment is directed by response to the Congressional Act of 1990, at the request of the President's Science Advisor.