“Sandy though is an overgrown progenitor of
Mother Nature, who no one messes with; not even a superpower. As if to remind
US Presidential candidates that it is not a good idea to put global warming --
or human aggravated climate change -- on the backburner (as both President
Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have done in this election
campaign), Mother Nature appears to have let loose Sandy to deliver a kick in
the American gut. The country is bracing itself for it on Monday and Tuesday.
Although it is only a category one hurricane
just now, Sandy is being described as the largest storm ever to head to the US.
A freak occurence that involves Sandy meeting two winter fronts coming in from
the north is expected to bring about a massive churn, the kind never seen
before. It has therefore has been dubbed a Frankenstorm. Its footprint is
almost half the size of India's landmass, and its cover area when it hits the
landmass is so vast, stretching from the Carolinas all the way up the Atlantic
seaboard to Connecticut and Massachusetts, and deep into Ohio in the west, that
no one is even worrying about where the epicenter will cross over. It's a minor
detail.”
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