This weahter pattern isn't business as usual...just ask the Aussies, the Brazilians, or pretty much anyone in the southeast US under the age of 40 or
50 or so.
Just thought I'd bump this in view of the latest disasters and overstresses.
My current assumption is that the US will experience economic and social collapse as a political entity sometime next fall to spring, due to
infrastructure collapse and economic aftereffects.