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When You’re Hot, You’re Hot!

By William A. Gralnick Italy is facing severe issues in Venice. Already the individuals can do to head off a global crisis. As Rachel
many centuries-old Cathedral of St. Marks is being Maddow says, “Watch this space.” I’ll give you some
This was the title of flooded at high tide with damage being done to priceless answers next month. But the very first thing we all must
a gonzo hit by country things. The Venetian fathers could not abide staring out do is believe it is happening. So entwined are we in
music hall of fame singer into the ocean and seeing monstrous gates. They built daily life we can’t focus on the lives of our children and
Jerry Reed. While the the gates and then sunk them, anchored them into the grandchildren, or our politics is blinding us, or we just
lyrics aren’t about the sea bottom. These gates will rise in emergencies. The can’t get our minds around what may seem to be the plot
weather, the title certainly works. one unanswered question is if they will if they’ve stayed of a science fiction movie. Believe you me, the moon
The people who own the unit above ours just unused for a few years and get covered with silt and muck. won’t be ready in time.
came down for a visit from Canada. I said, “Not too The good ole USA is primarily doing little, though Remember how we used to call doomsday sayers Chicken
many people come down here in July/August or even some states are. New York is a prime example, following Littles? Well, guess what? That chicken may be spot on.
September.” They said they’d noticed that it seemed hot, the lead of the Netherlands.
unusually hot, compared to last year. Yesterday from this Miami Beach? I used to live there 35 years ago. Even then, Columnist and author Bill Gralnick was born and
writing the heat index was 105 and higher in certain parts a heavy downpour would flood the streets of South Beach. raised in Brooklyn, NY. He is writing a three-part
of South Florida. That’s hot. Now, the city could paraphrase the signs in Johnstown, Pa. humorous memoir. The first is “The War of the Itchy
I’ve been a Florida resident for over 30 years. I can “Don’t spit on the floor. Remember the Johnstown Flood.” Balls and Other Tales from Brooklyn.” Just published
remember two things very distinctly about the early As Confucius said, a journey of a thousand miles is the sequel, “George Washington Didn’t Sleep Here.”
summers in the south Florida I moved to. One almost starts with the first step. If every one of us takes a step, Both are available on Amazon. You can find his writing
occurred like clockwork, it rained at four o’clock. The we’ll all move forward. We need to focus on what we as at https://www.williamgralnickauthor.com. 
storms were as they are called in Texas, “frog stranglers.”
Water poured out of the sky in torrents. It was “soak you
to the skin in a minute” rain. Then it would stop. Same
thing the next day. ª
The other is that every February we had a cold snap.
It was for Florida very cold, sometimes the high 30’s,
which was great for the oranges. The sweetness of the
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It’s been years since we’ve had an extended cold snap.
Things are changing so rapidly it is affecting every living
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lot of play then between us and the ozone layer. No one
noticed until recently that it was as if we were trapped
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