Fire breaks out along Harlem River Drive in Manhattan on November 19, 2024. The three-alarm fire is one of hundreds of brush and wildfires the New York and New Jersey area has experienced as drought and warm conditions persist in the region.
Last month brought New York a wake-up call that should have us shaking in our booties.
No, not him. As was clearly demonstrated, the electorate is under no obligation to get it right, only to elect a president. Granted, the result is dismaying and may and probably will have dismal consequences for us in ways it would take the rest of this newspaper to list. But probably not fatal ones. The republic will survive. Take heart: The clock is already ticking on his exit.
What I am speaking of was the weather. A monthlong drought with abnormally high temperatures and low humidity that resulted in wildfires here and there across the state, including in the lower Hudson Valley and New York City. I don’t recall that happening before. In one mini-event that went away with recent rains and snow, the security blanket New Yorkers have smugly enjoyed that we are not California, or Arizona, or even the Arctic disappeared.
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