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Extreme Conditions

Today winds at 20 miles per hour

The temperature is 90 
no electricity no power

Santa Cruz Halloween costumes will be about 
the Joker and surfing

Wild fires red and orange, windy and smoky
San Francisco schools are closing

Muir Woods blackened as wood is disappearing

San Diego in the hills have evacuations

Tornado Warnings for Mobile, AL
the basement shutters in a storm rotation

New Orleans severe rains and flash floods
where jazz music and instruments are floating

An Arctic cold front  sweeps through the north
friends fighting breathing in Dakota 
aware of the potential for pneumonia 

And the snow storms from the skies

We are back to the times when mankind and wildlife
fought for food and shelter as even technology fails 
White sharks are roaming at Rio Del Mar
at 90 in October the living bay waters are hot
I share my peanuts and water in the heat of the 90s 
but I notice that the squirrels and crows do not

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