Storms came in overnight and today is partly cloudy with the possibility of more. We are far enough from Chicago that we didn't get any major flooding. Our city government has worked to improve the drainage over the past decade or so. I remember wading through ankle deep water to get to a grocery store after a heavy rain once. We didn't have any system to tell us where such ponding occurred then--we do now. That is one of the first areas that were reworked to improve the runoff. I have often said that the local Republican mayor is one of the very few Republicans I vote for. He has been in office for about the last 15 years (minus one term because he didn't run for reelection that year) because of the improvements his administrations have made--very needful improvements. A big contrast with the idiots in Washington.
As you might guess from the above Chicago did get some flooding last night which forced the rescue of people at a music concert and others caught in the rising water. The weather channel has shown the Chicago flood along with New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Raleigh, Yonkers and other areas. The monsoon season has begun in the Southwest. Ruidoso had the added problem of heavy rain falling on the burn scars from last years fires.
Michael Goldfarb at FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY poses an interesting question: What is a Nation in the 21st century?"
I guess we shouldn't feel like the Lone Ranger (to use a phrase from my long ago childhood) with all of our freakish weather. EuroNews reports wild fires in France, Spain and Türkiye. Those areas had a heat wave with temperatures in the mid 40sC (about 115F). Türkiye also had a problem with electrical lines. The Balkans had a heat wave in the same range and are now experiencing storms with flooding. I read sometime in the last week that St. Petersburg, Russia was bracing for a flood along the Neva River.
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