One out of eight houses in Cleveland are vacant… and its director of development blames Phoenix!
In a perfect world, folks back “home,” who chose to not leave the Great Lakes cities for milder weather would force me to move back, or acknowledging that forced relocation is frowned upon in a free society, the “rational” folks can always hope for global warming to push me back.
“Once the heat becomes unbearable, they may find the freezing cold a little more bearable–especially if it’s not quite so freezing cold as they remember.”
But even then,
It won’t happen without help. In Buffalo, Shibley speaks of a federal urban sustainabilty plan that funnels federal money to the Great Lakes region to help draw population back. It’s been more than 30 years since the U.S. had a comprehensive national urban plan. Looming ecological crises in burgeoning urban centers more than justify a revival. “Cities don’t grow by topsy, it’s not a thing of nature – it’s a function of public policy,” he says.
As objectionable as I found this Toronto Star column when I read it yesterday, I was — nevertheless — wishing for some relief from this summers’ heat. I’ve been putting on weight all summer, despite five dogs who would love for me to take them for walks. It’s just been too uncomfortably hot for any of us to spend any time other than what’s necessary outdoors.
But since this afternoon’s storms, have you noticed? The temperature has dropped to the low 80s! (A much more pleasant low-80s than I remember ever of a July evening in Cleveland, by the way.)
Channel 12 reported on some less-than-ideal consequences of the storms on the east side.
However… as I was driving up Central this evening, it couldn’t have been nicer. I was delighted to see all the walkers along the Murphy Bridle Path. You’d think that when I got home I would have grabbed a dog and joined the neighbors. But, alas, I made only enough time to run up to the canal to snap this photo of the stormy sky.
When you’re not living under the endlessly gray skies of the “more verdant climes,” cloudy skies sure do have their appeal.
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Phoenix’ fault? Maybe they should look in the mirror and around town at all those fresh water guzzling union workers if there are any left. From the license plates I see here in Houston, it looks to me like a whole bunch of yankees left union pay scale jobs to come work in a right to work state.
But blame Phoenix? Why not blame Toyota that put auto plants in Alabama and Texas because they didn’t want to deal with unionism and all that fresh water that freezes solid 2 months a year.
I loved the call for federal intervention. Now, exactly which Sunbelt congressmen are going to vote for that scheme? After the 2010 census, Ohio will probably lose another congressman or two vs Arizona’s gain of two.
The pumping water causes global warming argument is another thigh slapper. A regional counterpoint: We could really save the planet if we just depopulate the Great Lakes region because then we wouldn’t have to heat Cleveland and Buffalo in the winter thus saving a much larger carbon foot stomp than the AZ pumping system.
Come on down y’all.
Good points, Tom. Here’s another idea… If there’s a resource in the Great Lakes that can’t be used by the population surrounding the lakes, but which is valuable to the Southwest region, why don’t they sell it to people in the Southwest? Of course, “they” needs to be defined. Who would sell it to “us”? (“Us” is easier understood… in Phoenix that might be Salt River Project, for example.) My vote is “they” is whomever invests the capital to build the systems (e.g., pipeline) to move the water to areas that are willing to pay for it.