Welcome to the rest of our lives.
Still don’t believe in climate change? Then you’re either deep in denial or delirious from the heat.So begins Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson in Eugene Robinson: Feeling the heat, an opinion piece in today's Washington Post.Like me, Robinson lives in Arlington County, right across the Potomac from the District of Columbia, and I periodically see him in a local supermarket. It has power from a generator truck, but as I write this, the rest of that strip mall remains dark, now into a 4th consecutive day.
At the peak of blackout, more than half the electric customers in the DC metro area were dark - in Arlington, it was 42,000 of 59,000 residences.
As Robinson notes of the day the storms hit (after 9 PM), it was 104 degrees on Friday, the hottest June day on