September 16, 2024, Unnamed tropical disturbance 1-in-1000 year flood in SE North Carolina
(Some really nice photos at a Topsail Island Facebook group.)
This story discussed the challenges of communications and getting people to pay attention to an unnamed storm.
North Carolina’s coast deluged by fifth historic flood in 25 years
North Carolina’s coast deluged by fifth historic flood in 25 years
This video, along with several others, mentioned the storm several days in advance.
AARP Story on Retirement and Retirees Losing It All with Sea Level Rise
One of the most human stories I have seen about loss of homes & value from sea level rise.
Mount Kilimanjaro Glaciers
Article by Phil Mote on local changes in water budget
The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?
Increasing Snow in Tajikistan
Scientists study why some of Central Asia’s glaciers are resilient to climate change (Levi Bridges)
A Donald Trump Diagnosis
Donald Trump is insane. Why isn’t this a bigger issue?
A qualified psychologist – who happens to be Donald Trump’s niece – has rendered an opinion on her uncle’s mental health, and it’s her professional opinion that he’s severely compromised by narcissism, delusions and personality disorders. When Dr. Mary Trump made this diagnosis a few years ago, most of the buzz in the press about it concerned the so-called “Goldwater rule,” a red herring of an issue which I don’t care about and won’t get into here. But, as summarized by the very capable Dr. John “Doctor Zebra” Sotos, a physician and historian of Presidential medical history, the thrust of Mary Trump’s analysis goes something like this:
Mr. Trump’s psychiatric illness is best identified as “a mixed, severe personality disorder with sociopathic and borderline features.” Specifically, it is a mixture of antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.
“Sociopathic” refers to a severe degree of antisocial personality disorder – a disease that psychiatrists formally diagnose in adults who have a “pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others,” as described by the standard textbook of mental disorders, “The DSM-5.”
“Borderline” does not refer to features that are on the verge of being abnormal. It refers instead to a defined list of clearly abnormal features that are not always present. It forms part of Trump’s diagnosis because antisocial personality disorder does not alone account for all of the abnormal behaviors he displays.
Although it is tempting to apply narcissistic personality disorder to Mr. Trump, his illness, as Mary Trump observes, is larger than that. His antisocial features swallow (and exceed) his narcissism.