There is one rather intense storm going on outside. I’ve seen some pretty heavy ones recently, and within the last few years, but this is something else. Just no reprieve. No break. Continuous sheets of noise as a thick veil hammers on down on.

It’s reminding me of a storm back in late 2014 or early 2015. I suspect it was more likely the former due to how busy it was in the latter, but. that’s not important. It was so intense work was evacuated. We were actually pretty safe where we were, but there were people I worked with who didn’t know if their homes were going to be safe, and so fair that we closed early.

I went home and home as fine, but I lived in an ideal location. I know others didn’t. But whilst at work you could see the storm pretty well, and it was pretty heavy, and so is this one. I get the feeling, however, that if this one keeps up its intensity, we won’t be evacuated, which is fine for me, but I worry about others.

These are dangerous times that we are quite willingly sprinting into, and it worries me quite a lot. This weather is increasing in its regularity and it might just keep increasing. Might become more extreme in differences between rain and dry. Those changes that we all don’t think about and forget are happening over time due to how memory smears.

But this is heavy, and this is intense and violent and the rain is thrashing away, cutting through the air, filling the streets to form one massive body, and it is easing a little but it remains violent. It remains heavy and it seems destructive. It seems like it’s going to cause a lot of problems, and so there needs to be care and consideration for what is going on.

These are times where we really need to look out for each other in whichever way we are able to, and we probably won’t. Not enough people will look to see if their neighbours are okay. Plenty will, of course, be okay, but there are also going to be people who are going to experience some sort of setback from this. Do we just leave them be, or do we help them if they need it and want it?

Yeah, that might be a grim thing to consider, but this is some pretty bad weather, and I’m tired of people not caring. I’m tired of watching things go from worse to worse, and nothing seems to change and we just make token gestures rather than genuine outreach.

The rain concerns me, and I think it’s a good thing to be concerned. I hope it doesn’t last too long and I hope it doesn’t cause issues, or if it does, they are minimal and easily fixable. But I don’t know if that will be the case, and as much as I love the rain, I feel this isn’t good.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 11:09:28

Bit slow, but a bit more thought out, and this one required it, I think.

Written at work.