I suspect it would be after about the second time of being underwater that I'd decide to pick up and leave. But of course there are very few places anywhere in the world that aren't open to some kind of natural disaster. I think I've mentioned before that I keep a close eye on that kind of stuff, so I knew about the fires elsewhere, and the flooding, and such ... but I suspect a lot of Americans are too busy worrying about the problems over here to put a lot of thought into other places.

Here in northern Indiana our weather's been oddly--normal. Hot, yes, but hot is what we do in the summer. We've had some pretty severe thunderstorms the last several days, but again ... summer. The only big difference here is that our sunsets and sunrises have been spectacular, thanks to smoke from the western US and Canada floating over us in the upper atmosphere.

I remember a couple of decades ago reading that researchers had determined wild weather like this is actually normal for the world--that we had, in fact, been going through an unusually mild climate. That talk went away when global warming became a thing, and before the research there was a lot of talk about man-made global cooling.

I told my wife the other day that the Earth is just trying to shake us off: We're like ticks on a dog, and we finally bit once too often.