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Real Talk
Illustration: Yann Bastard
Published April 21, 2021
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My happy place is that chaotic zone of salt and spray where the beach meets the sea, a place of coming and going, flux and exchange. I love to dig my toes into the suctioning sand and feel the swirl of a receding wave. Though often my feet find sharp things in the soft sand not just gravel and pebbles but also, increasingly and overwhelmingly, plastic. I try to collect the shards, the bits of aquas, whites, and teals, but soon I give up, angry and defeated. There is too much. So much of it is too tiny to hold or even see.
that they love, the places close to them go down. and realizing that their kids are not going to be able to experience that and that the quality of the lives of their kids and grandkids are going to go down and not up. and from montana, we ll take you to mississippi. flooding this spring left parts of the delta under water. and tremaine lee is in vicksburg. does it gives you certain about what might happen next year? wishing i was old enough for retirement. reporter: normally when the mississippi river floods, the arm coarmy core engineers trieso redirect the water. but this year the river was so swollen that the corps opened louisiana s spillway for longer than it ever had dumping an estimated 10 trillion gallons of water into lake pontchartrain increasing the water volume
add water volume to an already dangerous situation. so even on a normal day, a normal weekend when we experience our king tides, you ll see roads overflowing with water. you ll see canals overflowing their banks. so when you add water from storm on top of that, whether it be rain or storm surge, it just makes the situation worse. what can you tell us, chief, about how evacuations are going right now? well, evacuations are not occurring in the city of miami or the miami-dade area. those evacuations are now occurring further north, so hopefully the residents are adhering to the requested evacuation notices, and those that are not evacuating, whether they re not in an evacuation zone or, god forbid, choosing not to evacuate, they are fortifying their shelter, ensuring they have the appropriate supplies, and giving the rescuers the time they will
stopping it. after an estimated 70 to 100 homes burned, all gas and electric was shut off to three separate towns. people there have been evacuated. schools will be closed tomorrow. we re going to be getting a live report coming up in a bit on this story. fire fighting decades in the service have never seen anything like what happened tonight in massachusetts. there is just a part of it from the air. so, again, a lot of ground to cover and we will do so over the next few hours of live coverage. first off to this storm, raging off the carolinas, just downgraded as of 11:00 p.m. eastern time to a category 1, but remember, it has carried along with it the water volume of a category 4 that it once was. our meteorologist bill karins here with us in the studio and at the board to start us off. hey, bill. good evening, brian. i was just able to quickly go
enormous iceberg breaking away from the antarctic peninsula, one of the biggest calving events ever reported. it s noticed for its impact on sea levels since it holds twice the water volume, twice the water volume of lake erie. cnn s kyung lah has more. reporter: a crack more than 120 miles long on the east side of the antarctic explain finally breaking off, creating a spectacular iceberg weighing more than a trillion metric tons, roughly the size of delaware. it s one of the largest icebergs in human history. reporter: this ucla professor has spent years studying arctic ice, traveling to where the iceberg has broken off. she s seen other big sections of