Ok so on the radio this morning I hear that today in my medium size NC city that we have a CODE ORANGE pollution alert, and if you don't have to go outside you shouldn't. As I am lying there I think holy fark, what the hell happened? Is there some toxic spill? Some waste dump gone awry? So I lie (lay?) there in rapt attention waiting for the details, but they mention nothing about it. As if they have just said "oh, it will be a little sprinkly outside so wear your rubbers."
Come to find out that it is a pretty usual thing around here. Like Smoky the bear saying that the forest fire alter is red or yellow. When I found this out I was like... Uh... isn't that a problem? This city is NOT New York or LA or Chicago or Atlanta!! Should we be having POLLUTION ALERTS?!
WE ARE POISONING OURSELVES!!! I'm about to the point now were people are like, oh I have cancer, and all I want to say is "SERVES YOU RIGHT." Which I guess is pretty awful.. but... come on. Pollution Alerts? Am I the only one to feel like this is a terrible problem? Are there not senators and the farking president waking up and going, "boy... maybe we SHOULD do something... since I'm not really supposed to BREATH THE AIR OUTSIDE TODAY because of the pollution."
...I'm moving to...the underside of a rock... any takers?
2 comments:
ya know. c-town WV isnt too shabby of a place to move to
-Meg
Rock on in the C-Town.. even though you complain about it all the time... ;-D
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