Tsunami Advisories and Perpetual Doomscrolling.

Well, it fucking happened. We had a tsunami watch, which later graduated to a tsunami advisory last week after a massive earthquake hit Russia. You probably heard about it, the entire fucking west coast was on a tsunami advisory, warning, or watch.

I survived covid times just to be awarded the opportunity to see how my perpetually nervous system would handle a tsunami advisory.

Natural disaster has always horrified me (probably a normal fear to have). You’re completely helpless, and at the will of earth, and for a control freak especially, that shit ain’t it.

When the tsunami alert popped up on my weather app, it said there was a watch in Hoquiam, 20 miles inland. My first thought was ‘damn sux 2 be ya’ll’, then I remembered I’m 3 blocks from the ocean. Jokes on me.

Goodbye cruel world.

Strangely enough, my next thought was ‘Welp, oceans just be like that sometimes’.

I won’t pretened like I didn’t have a lump in my gut, but what was coming wouldn’t hit us for another 6 hours or so, and therefore I had time to gather my favorite vintage pieces and drink a whiskey or four.

As the countdown continued, it became clearer that the tsunami wasn’t going to be much of an event. We would rebuild. No flooding expected, waves predicted to be under a foot right during a very low tide.

I was shocked at how much it didn’t have me completely fucked up and losing my absolute shit.

Maybe the non-consensual exposure thereapy we’ve all been subjected to since 2020 has paid off, but I mean, at what fucking cost.

I’ve been so numbed my the continual horrors that my self preservation has given up the ghost.

🤙🏼 #beachlife

When you wake up every day and see another article about Alligator Ausch…,er Alcatraz, or another photo of an emaciated, dying Palestinian child, suddenly nothing shocks you anymore.

An alien could beam down right fucking now, probe my entire asshole and I wouldn’t blink an eye. Just another Tuesdee, amirite?

I’ve read more than a few articles explaining that this is all part of the bad men’s plan. To numb us to the point of complacency so that they can slip in more than just the tip of fascism without us putting up a fight.

Maybe it’s working…and that is far more bleak than a tsunami advisory.