And then, the lake came back
When the analysis arm of the media tells us that things are probably going to get wort (all topics confounded), we know they are playing “crystal ball:. No big deal. What scares me is when they add details to the back story that show how poor we really are at planning.
The fields around Abbotsford, BC are under water. No way to tell just how deep, so I’m going to label the new lake as Inconvenient. Here’s the catch (there’s always one, right? That whole area used to be a lake, until someone (let’s say government, because it has broad shoulders and infinite stupidity), went all terraformer. Turned that huge, naturallake into farmland. Really fertile farmland, the sort that new settlers lust after. All went swimmingly for about a century, until the ‘20s (this century, not the previous version. They were too busy farming and milking cows and all those other farmer things. Orchards.
Here we are, on the edge of Xmas. The stores are empty, because supply chains. The people in some areas are going elsewhere by train (bet you didn’t expect that). And the roads are a mess. Flat out disappeared, in certain areas. Could take years to get back to the old normal. And did I mention large fields of fire? Forest fires. Grass fires. Muck up the rain runoff fires.
At a guess, those new generation terraformers don’t know what to do. It won’t be farming, for many. And we’re going to miss the crops, as we prepare our daily meals. I guess that BC is in for a long winter. Now if they can slow the fervour for pipelines to the coast. Mustn’t wreck that resource, too.
