When life hands you lemons . . .

and then crab apples, and you don ' t have any sugar, you ain ' t making lemonade. My power went out at 1:30 yesterday and didn ' t come back on until 2:30 today. Being unable to charge my devices, I deprived you all of the blog posts you so desperately wanted. I had two very important phone meetings and some other business so I hoarded my batteries. Didn ' t really have anything to eat to speak of the whole time and had to spend my evening reading by flashlight.Oh, boo hoo, poor man. I ' m not sick, nobody I know has gotten sick from this, and Windham County has so far largely been spared. The power outages are indeed becoming more frequent and that will get worse. The Gulf of Mexico is the warmest it ' s ever been and that ' s why we had a storm of tropical storm intensity over a vast area that spawned tornadoes that killed people and knocked down trees that took out power across much of the country east of the Mississippi. It will keep happening. But we ' re rich and we can put the wires back up.But, asThe Editorial Board points out, we have yet to hear from the refugee camps, the failed states, the regions of civil conflict, the poor nations with minimal health care infrastructure, the slums of Mumbai. This has actually puzzled me. I ' m pretty sure the numbers coming out of Iran are bogus, and Iraq has a barely functioning government and public health infrastructure but reports cases and deaths by the single digits. It seems that can ' t be true, but a widespread outbrea...
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