Henny Penny the Sky is Falling. On My Head.

Remember when Donny Rumsfield said that as the museums in Baghdad were being looted after the invasion of Iraq? Some moments are just priceless.

Help me Donny!

Anyhoo that’s what I feel like now. Atlanta, Georgia, where I live, work, and (sometimes) play (at least when Mrs. Bremner isn’t working), is a wonderfully green city. Flying in to Hartsfield Jackson Airport on an airplane it looks like a sea of green with a few skyscrapers sticking out of the middle. However those of us who live here know that under that sea of green is a sea of houses.

Arial view of Atlanta, Georgia

But one of the weird things about living here is that when there are several days of rain the trees all start falling down. Sometimes on your head.

I guess that is the disadvantage of living in a city with so much green.

It has been raining hard the past few days, and today the trees started falling down, taking out power lines, crashing through people’s roofs, smashing cars and killing at least one person.

Aren't these guys supposed to have roots or something?

Last time this happened a tree fell on a car driving down a street not far from my house, killing a woman and her baby sitting in the back seat of an SUV while her husband and her father in the front seat were untouched. Tragic.

I was called to pick up my son from school after care as there was no power. Now I am at home with no power. Watching out my front window at the cars on Ponce de Leon Ave. not moving. Because the traffic lights don’t work. Because the trees fell on the power lines that supply them with electricity. Time to go find the candles. Again.

And since there is no power I can’t read my facebook page. Or read the comments on my blog or on other blogs. (sniff, sniff)

When we first moved here nine years ago something similar happened and our real estate introduced it as something of a fluke. Well we had a “drought” (a situation which led our Governor to lead the State Legislature in a prayer for rain– see “Drought and the Power of Prayer“) for several years with a total ban on watering and an ongoing dispute about how much water to drain from the city reservoir, Lake Lanier, to let flow down the Chatahoochee River to Florida where there was some kind of endangered mussel that required fresh water to flow into the marshes there from, yes, Georgia (I mean, aren’t the rednecks that drive their boats on Lake Lanier blaring Linard Skinard and drinking beer endangered species too?).

Redneck boaters are an endangered species

They even threatened to move the state line to get more water from Tennessee. That was one of those brilliant proposals in the State Legislature that was up there with banning stem cell research in the State of Georgia.

Well it appears that we either have a drought, or a situation where the trees are unable to stand up on their own. I mean, don’t those guys grow roots for a reason? The whole thing is a little weird. And they say we are still in a drought and that it would have to rain everyday for three years to catch up.

If that happened we’d all be squished like bugs by the trees.

I think they just had a crappy water plan and don’t want to admit it. Like Florida where their plan was to take all the water from the underground caverns. Then they used it up. Let everyone water their lawns like there is no tomorrow and then say WTF? when the water runs out.