You know that the local authorities here will try to do their best to cope with this kind of immense input of water over such a short period of time. As they always try to do of course, even as they also struggle with so many social issues that go begging for proper funding. People will be helped, but they will not be fully recovered, by any means, because the resources are not going to be made available soon enough from the only source that has the real mandate in the first place; the Federal Government. And we can say that because the current administration has already demonstrated the only thing it is good at doing, in the context of multi tasking, and that is screwing things up across a broad spectrum of policy areas; with the screwups actually leveraging each other so as to make them even more disastrous than they would have been by themselves. And that would be the case even if Congress could even begin to try to organize compromise legislation, which, obviously, it is not even trying to do anymore (other than for show when the outcome won't matter really).

The really hard part here is that, in order to save the planet, we are going to have to make the extreme weather last for a while; maybe even a long while (until we work like crazy to get the CO2, and other infrared blocking gases, out of atmosphere), and perhaps even worsen the severity a bit, overall, in the bargain. And that is because the alternative of not having any more of the main circulation systems, that the life here became quite used to, will change our situation to where nothing much circulates at all, and that will be very bad for us, and the rest of the main food chains of the planet. This is, unfortunately, what will be the net result of trying to keep ice at the poles will be. And we will have to do it (with very large scale, lighter than air constructs, as I have already described before). There will simply be no choice but to try.

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