If you want to know what “irony” is, you can’t do any better than realizing the hurricane that devastated New Jersey and its boardwalk bore the same name as a Bruce Springsteen song about leaving the boardwalk behind.
The storm’s name was chosen well before it ever formed, and it could have gone anywhere at all. But instead, it came to New Jersey and wiped the boardwalk away. It’s equal parts unbelievable and heartbreaking.
One of my very good friends lives in New Jersey, and I hope he’s doing all right. I hope New York gets back on its feet soon, too. And I hope that we finally understand how the planet we all call home is trying to tell us something. The oil companies and their paid mouthpieces in the media don’t want us to hear it, but we ignore it at our own peril. And if this storm doesn’t break through the noise of denial on the issue, then I suppose nothing ever will.
My wife and I have been saying for years that Mother Nature is pissed.
And you’re both absolutely right! I remember Hurricane David, I think it was, brushing past New York back in the 1970s. But I never thought they take a direct hit, like they just did. What troubled times these are.
I hope your friend is okay. I have family in that state, but luckily they leave a good distance from the worst of it.
Thanks for reading. It’s a terrible thing that they’re going through, which I hope we’ll never see the likes of again.