I think at any point in history, you could read the news or watch the news and feel like it was just filled with horrible things happening around the world. Even so, I feel like I have come to a point where I’m not only depressed by the news, I’m terrified of it. Here are 6 current events that make me feel the end is near and life as we know it will cease to exist.
1. Trump
Need I say more? Maybe his election was last year, but the impact of his presidency is potent in the air…and it stinks. Not only is Trump being president terrifying, it has had and will continue to have an innumerable amount of consequences. His presidency is characterized by scandals and just plain drama. I miss Obama.
2. Charlottesville
In early August, white nationalists gathered for a “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville. The event was probably most characterized by a car ramming into a group of counter protesters and killing a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, a passionate paralegal from Charlottesville advocating for the disenfranchised. The protest itself was organized in opposition to a plan by local officials to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee in a park in Charlottesville yet, according to the New York Times, was characterized by white supremacists and white nationalism, which is why the counter protesters were there to begin with. I could go on and on about this event but bottom line, the fact there is still even a need to counter protest extreme white nationalists in this country is terrifying.
3. North Korea Missile Tests
Tension between the U.S. and North Korea is obviously not new. What is significant is the amount of missiles North Korea has been testing and having their leader brag about ICBM being developed with capabilities of reaching the U.S. Nuclear war, and even the threat of it, is serious. It’s a good thing we have such a stable president totally capable of handling dire situations with wisdom and decorum, right?
4. Manchester Bombing
Remember the terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester? The Manchester attack in May killed at least 22 people and injured 59 others when a lone suicide bomber detonated explosives among TEENAGE fans leaving the concert that night.
5. Mexico Earthquake
This month, Mexico was struck byh the strongest earthquake in over a century leaving at least 61 people dead and thousands more displaced and injured. This as an 8.2 earthquake and the impact was devastating on the people and infrastructure of the country. According to the New York Times, thousands of homes in the city of Juchitán de Zaragoza were severely damaged. Not to mention the over 60 people killed.
6. Hurricane Irma
We have all heard about Hurricane Irma and how it slammed in the Florida coast. The winds held at about 185 miles an hour for 24 hours. That is the strongest ever recorded in the open Atlantic Ocean. Irma hit Florida after devastating much of the Caribbean and the impact of the natural disaster is still very much present.
7. Hurricane Jose
As if Irma wasn’t enough, Hurricane Jose, according to the Washington Post, continues to lurk off the East Coast and is expected by coastal areas from the Mid-Atlantic to New England, where tropical-storm conditions are possible during the coming week. Coastal areas from the Jersey Shore to eastern Massachusetts may face a serious threat from prolonged coastal flooding, in addition to heavy rains and tropical-storm-force winds starting as soon as Tuesday.
8. Tropical Storm Maria turned Hurricane
According to Forbes, right behind Hurricane Irma is Hurricane Maria. Tropical Storm Maria has formed in the Atlantic and is now advancing on the same islands that took the brunt of Irma’s wrath. For the moment, it doesn’t appear to be strengthening in intensity but is expected bring a lot of rain to the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.
