First there was the heat dome, with temperatures reaching over 40 degrees Celsius. Then there were the fires, with the town of Lytton burning to the ground. Then we had a windstorm, which caused 109 shipping containers to fall off of a barge and into the ocean. Now we have atmospheric rivers, with rainfall shattering records…with over 7 inches falling in three days at my house. Evacuations, floods and landslides soon followed, with major highways washed away, oil pipelines not pumping, and rail lines all screeching to a halt.

The Premier just declared a State of Emergency. Rules against hoarding and price gauging.

You can’t make this stuff up. It’s all happened in my province of British Columbia Canada in 2021. And like when the pandemic hit, it makes people do strange things.

I like the zombie apocalypse analogy much better. According to Wikipedia, “the spreading "zombie plague" swamps law enforcement organizations, the military and health care services, leading to the panicked collapse of civil society until only isolated pockets of survivors remain. Basic services such as piped water supplies and electrical power shut down, mainstream mass media cease broadcasting, and the national government collapses or goes into hiding. The survivors usually begin scavenging for food, weapons and other supplies in a world reduced to a mostly pre-industrial hostile wilderness. There is usually a 'safe-zone' where the non-infected can seek refuge and begin a new era, usually held by other survivors or the government.”

 

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