MORNING SENTINEL • September 8, 2021
This year mid-August was nowhere to be seen until September. It was hot nearly all month, with 90-degree days in the final week and nighttime temperatures so warm for August that there were two mornings where it reached 70 degrees before 8 a.m. here in Troy. When that happened 40, 50, 60 years ago, it was an anomaly. Now it’s just everyday “summer weather” to youthful TV meteorologists. Without immediate adjustments to the way we live, August plowing over into September, and September into October will be the least of our kids’ and grandkids’ and great-grandkids’ worries. I love those unborn generations already. I want them to live and thrive, not struggle and suffer through fall after fall of summer swelter and its floods, fires, droughts and hurricanes that in some places are already turning into wars and famines. ~ Dana Wilde