by Travis Mateer
I decided to get caught up on True Detective while staying in Santa Monica because the storms just won’t leave me alone. The latest installment of storm to put a serious damper on my travels is the historic rainfall that’s been falling on Los Angeles since I got here on Saturday. From the link:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A storm of historic proportions dumped a record amount of rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes while people living in homeless encampments in many parts of the city scrambled for safety.
About 710,000 people statewide were without power Monday evening.
Yeah, Monday was fun. After the odyssey of getting into my rental unit was accomplished (don’t hide a key in toilet paper when there’s homeless people everywhere because I’m going to assume it’s actual TOILET PAPER), I went to a fantastic bookstore in downtown LA and made it there ALIVE, which wasn’t a sure thing as I navigated the highway where a woman must have hydroplaned, because she was at a complete stop and facing the wrong direction in the middle of the road. Good times.
I’ve gone on three separate road trips over the last 6 months, and during EACH ONE I’ve had issues with storms, like the historic rain the fell on Brooklyn during my ONLY full day in New York City last September 29th. From the link:
Numerous locations across received more than 4 inches (100 mm) of rain, with Central Park recording 5.48 inches (139 mm) of rainfall, Midtown Manhattan recording 6.09 inches (155 mm) of rain, Fordham recording 6.19 inches (157 mm) of rain and Howard Beach recording 7.86 inches (200 mm) of rain. The rainfall in Central Park was the sixth-highest rainfall over 141 years. The heaviest rainfall, however, was in Brooklyn where Park Slope received 9.80 inches (249 mm) of rain, with Valley Stream in Nassau County recording 9.06 inches (230 mm) of rain. Parts of Brooklyn received 4.5 in (110 mm) of rain in just three hours. The heavy rainfall on September 29 contributed to the second-wettest September in New York City on record.
If that was it, I wouldn’t be developing a serious storm complex, but I was also in Austin, Texas, last month during rain that produced flooding, and I was in the Joshua Tree area last fall when rain closed down roads. Isn’t this fun?
Back to True Detective, the picture I took shows a character in the show with a coat that clearly features a smiley face on it. Thanks to “researchers” like William Ramsey, the smiley face is becoming notorious for being a symbolic calling card of sorts for the psychopath class, but if “researchers” aren’t suggesting COUNTER steps to what’s being signaled with these symbols, then what they end up doing is essentially PROMOTING this method of signaling, and I think that HELPS these psychos spread the fear, which may be one of the goals behind charging this symbol with dark intent.
I would like to say more, but my time is limited, so I’m going to wrap this up as I prepare for the next stop on my adventure: Las Vegas.
Stay tuned!
