Maybe we should all just start with being aware of our individual decisions as humans. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Conserve energy, compost, buy durable products.
Households should not be producing multiple bags of landfill bound trash per week.
Last shorts weekend of the season. I'm going to get in another outdoor shower or two and then next week looks like first woodstove driven heat of the season.
The wednesday night system in SNE is congrats, maybe, parts of Worcester Co that are > 1000'. Perhaps some lower elevations SE of there see flakes, if it is a wound up storm but expectations should be set low and be happy with seeing first flakes.
There was a collective WTF? after that. Terrorism in a high school, by two kids that felt oppressed and angry, with the society that existed in that high school.
Agree with all your points. I was 16 years old when the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre happened and I remember people being freaked out that something like that went down in America. I remember watching the news of that Luby's restaurant massacre with my housemate. Both of those defintely were a wake up call. Plus that big postal facility shooting in the 80's.
I will say, although 9-11 was obviously a much larger casualty event with global implications, I feel like our collective innocence was ripped open with Columbine HS.
Yeah, even in here Franklin Co, we are pretty accustomed to most crime being petty car break-ins, the occasional robbery and sadly domestic abuse. Nobody who has a driveway locks their car. I know plenty of folks who don't lock their house when they run out for an errand etc.
What a selfish prick and coward this guy was. Not only devastating the lives of all the victims and their families but also bringing fear to an entire community. The PTSD from this will run deep and last a lot longer than the news cycle of the event. I know this is true of any mass shooting event, it's just closer to home because I have family and friends in Maine.
We still don't know if he targeted those he shot. However, if he didn't kill himself, he is obviously an angry, unstable individual and could strike again somewhere. That's the worrisome part of all this.
I remember reading that back when it came out. Remarkable. There was also that dude that lived in a comfy underground bunker on Nantucket for years unnoticed.
Maybe they were baiting him into a false sense of security when they left the first time? Probably not but just a random thought I had.
ABC news has good live coverage right now.