Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to will Gayeff Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Booker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I want to talk today about the catastrophic scenes that
Speaker 1: we are seeing coming out of California in places like Chatsworth, Capitola,
Speaker 1: Studio City, Los Angeles, among others. The scenes are absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: As I'm talking to you, I'm taking a look at
Speaker 1: the live footage of mudslides consuming highways, of rain coming
Speaker 1: into public transportation stations, stories of a horrific tragedy of
Speaker 1: a five year old being swept away by the storm
Speaker 1: that folks are now emergency operators are now looking for.
Speaker 1: These things are not acts of God, and that is
Speaker 1: what frustrates me. Whenever we continue to see headlines that
Speaker 1: say historic, catastrophic, unbelievable, billions of dollars worth of damage.
Speaker 1: Is that then meteorologists, whether people and others will kind
Speaker 1: of shrug and just say, well, another state of emergency
Speaker 1: has been called from such and such a state, and
Speaker 1: our thoughts and prayers are with them. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing that we do about gun violence in the United States.
Speaker 1: We send our thoughts and prayers, we send a few
Speaker 1: news cameras, we take footage, we take interviews, and then
Speaker 1: we move on follow the bouncing ball. Our weather, our
Speaker 1: climate is out of control. The climate crisis is no
Speaker 1: longer impending. It is here. I keep thinking about. And
Speaker 1: of course, as the news story and the calendar year changed,
Speaker 1: we're not still talking about the catastrophic winter storm that
Speaker 1: took place in Buffalo that killed dozens of people. Now
Speaker 1: I want folks to wrap their minds around this because
Speaker 1: I've said this before, but as I was on holiday break,
Speaker 1: I'm watching like everyone else's the news coverage and just
Speaker 1: my jaw dropping open when you're hearing reports of people
Speaker 1: who are found frozen to death in their cars. There
Speaker 1: were about forty people found frozen to death in their cars.
Speaker 1: I want you to think about that for a moment.
Speaker 1: That is not normal. It is not normal for temperatures
Speaker 1: to drop in such a way and for snow to
Speaker 1: come down in such a ferocious way that it was
Speaker 1: like the winds of a hurricane and then the snow
Speaker 1: storm of your worst kind of snow coming down. Also,
Speaker 1: think about this. People who live up and around the
Speaker 1: Great Lakes, up and around in Buffalo and bordering Canada.
Speaker 1: They know how to do winter. This is not like
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when there were some snowflakes
Speaker 1: that hit the ground in Atlanta, Georgia, and we heard
Speaker 1: reports of children being stranded on school buses for like
Speaker 1: several hours because Georgia never has snow, so people don't
Speaker 1: know how to drive and they don't know how to
Speaker 1: protect themselves. That is not the case. We're talking about
Speaker 1: parts of Canada and New York that borders Canada. These people,
Speaker 1: these towns know how to brace for snow. There was
Speaker 1: also a lot of blame that went around as we
Speaker 1: were watching this news unfold several weeks ago, just a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, actually not even a month has passed,
Speaker 1: and blame going to local officials for not announcing an
Speaker 1: emergency soon enough. But again, if you believe that this
Speaker 1: is a normal snowstorm, then you are going to take
Speaker 1: normal precautions. But when you were talking about a snowstorm
Speaker 1: that meets hurricane winds, you are talking about an entirely
Speaker 1: different beast. We cannot continue to operate as if all
Speaker 1: is normal when it is not. We cannot continue to
Speaker 1: deal with these impending storms as if they're just par
Speaker 1: for the course. They are not human beings are not
Speaker 1: supposed to freeze alive. The last time, I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you guys remember and I say, it's a terrible
Speaker 1: great movie. The day after Tomorrow. The Day after Tomorrow
Speaker 1: is this, you know, super fantastic kind of sci fi
Speaker 1: dramedy of a movie where these three major storms, historic storms,
Speaker 1: converge around the globe and for about one week, every
Speaker 1: bit of satellite is blacked out by the amount of snow.
Speaker 1: The temperatures drop about forty degrees within like an hour,
Speaker 1: everything is covered in ice and snow, and there is
Speaker 1: a breaking of the border on American side in order
Speaker 1: to go south to Mexico and in southern States. It
Speaker 1: is a scene that pretty much if you saw the
Speaker 1: pictures over the holiday of the houses encased in ice,
Speaker 1: literally encased in ice, these homes that were on a lake.
Speaker 1: The wind brought in the water, then the snow covered down,
Speaker 1: the temperatures dropped, and these people would have to chisel
Speaker 1: their way out. People were trapped in their car died
Speaker 1: six minutes away from home. You think to yourself, well,
Speaker 1: six minutes, why couldn't they just walk? Oh, because when
Speaker 1: they got out of the car. The snow was waist
Speaker 1: deep and they could not see nor could they traverse
Speaker 1: in waist deep snow and get home. Stories of a
Speaker 1: man carrying a woman's body frozen and leaving it at
Speaker 1: the steps of I believe a fire station or a
Speaker 1: police station so that she could be found. These are
Speaker 1: the stories that have kind of been glossed over. And
Speaker 1: we're glossing over these storms as if it's just par
Speaker 1: for the course. They are just going to get worse,
Speaker 1: and there's no real way to prepare when everybody is
Speaker 1: sticking their fucking heads in the sand as if they
Speaker 1: are ostriches and pretending that what we are seeing is
Speaker 1: normal weather. If people are not alerted to what is
Speaker 1: happening and understand that this is what climate change looks like.
Speaker 1: It looks like storms that are labeled as historic coming
Speaker 1: each and every fucking couple of weeks. It looks like
Speaker 1: each season bringing us historic weather events that we've never
Speaker 1: seen and so don't know how to deal with. Ignorance
Speaker 1: is expensive, not only in the cost of lives, but
Speaker 1: in the cost of money that it is going to
Speaker 1: take to rehab these towns and places. Can you get
Speaker 1: ice insurance? For a house when it's encased in it,
Speaker 1: and then when it melts, then it's a flood. The
Speaker 1: pipes have burst in these people. Homes are demolished, lives
Speaker 1: are being upended because we refuse to deal with the
Speaker 1: climate crisis that is not impending, that has arrived and
Speaker 1: arrived with significant fucking force. So now we switch gears
Speaker 1: to look at California, where, according to the New York
Speaker 1: Times quote, a catastrophic string of storms continue to pummel California,
Speaker 1: with the additional rain aggravating ongoing flooding conditions and raising
Speaker 1: the risk of flash floods and mudslides. Scenes of destruction
Speaker 1: played out across the state. In Chatsworth, a Los Angeles suburb,
Speaker 1: several people were rescued. Get this, folks after a sinkhole
Speaker 1: swallowed two cars, augusting Los Angeles River and mudslides threatened
Speaker 1: homes in southwest Los Angeles after rare flash flood warning
Speaker 1: was issued Again we're using words like rare. People don't
Speaker 1: even know what that sound is, if it's something that
Speaker 1: has never happened before. How the fuck do you know
Speaker 1: what to do when you hear this sound? What do
Speaker 1: you know is coming in the northern part of the state.
Speaker 1: High winds and flooding rain carved out a chunk of
Speaker 1: a pier in Capitola, a suburb of Santa Cruz. Parts
Speaker 1: of Union Station in downtown Los Angeles were flooded on
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. LA Metro officials warned customers to expect major delays. Now, folks,
Speaker 1: if you go on the New York Times and you
Speaker 1: look at some of the catastrophic scenes, it is like
Speaker 1: a river entered the Metro station in La. Now, I
Speaker 1: remember it was last year in New York that I
Speaker 1: think about maybe five to seven inches of rain came
Speaker 1: down in a day. And some of the subways in
Speaker 1: New York, which are so antiquated were built in like
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties, look like it was a geyser, right,
Speaker 1: So that's happening. Then they go on shaver Lake. Earlier
Speaker 1: rainfall had already drenched the ground and increased runoff. There
Speaker 1: have also been landslides in the shaver Lake area in
Speaker 1: Fresno County in the central part of the state. So
Speaker 1: there is not an area that hasn't been affected. Now,
Speaker 1: I want you to think about California, in LA in particular,
Speaker 1: what is a joke about La It never fucking rains there.
Speaker 1: They are consistently and have consistently been in a drought
Speaker 1: for I don't know how many fucking years at this point.
Speaker 1: So the ground is super super dry. Then you have
Speaker 1: these catastrophic storms that come. The ground is dry, which
Speaker 1: means you would think like, oh, it just saturates and
Speaker 1: that's good. No, it's too fast. It's like when I
Speaker 1: allow my plants to dry out, then I go ahead
Speaker 1: and warter them the same amount. Well, I actually need
Speaker 1: to ward them slow of the pace of how the
Speaker 1: plant floor is saturating. I can't bring down the planter
Speaker 1: all at once, right, because then I overwhelmed the plant
Speaker 1: and it overflows. That's exactly what is happening here. So
Speaker 1: all over California, from Sacramento to San Francisco to Santa Cruz,
Speaker 1: Santa Barba, Los Angeles. The pictures, folks have cars that
Speaker 1: have water up to the windshield. People are literally in
Speaker 1: kayaks kayaking down what used to be a street that
Speaker 1: they drove down. The flash flooding is coming so quickly
Speaker 1: it is literally wiping cars and people in them away.
Speaker 1: The death toll is now in the dozens of people
Speaker 1: in California. So in California it's rain, and in some
Speaker 1: areas in the north it's snow. In Buffalo bordering in
Speaker 1: Canada it was catastrophic snowstorm. All of these quote unquote
Speaker 1: historic weather events, and yet we have a political party,
Speaker 1: a white supremacist political halt, that wants to argue still
Speaker 1: the merits of climate change as dozens of people die
Speaker 1: now in places where we're not used to hearing these things.
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, well, another hurricane is hitting Florida. No,
Speaker 1: but every hurricane that has hit Florida in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years or hit Puerto Rico has been what
Speaker 1: historic and catastrophic. There's only so much money to repair
Speaker 1: these places because we're not having any conversations about weatherizing.
Speaker 1: We're not having any conversations about mitigation, We're not having
Speaker 1: any conversations about prevention. All we are doing is all
Speaker 1: we've ever done. And how does that match up? How
Speaker 1: does the status quo match up with historic events? It
Speaker 1: doesn't fucking apply. I'm so outdone because it's like reading
Speaker 1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. It is like watching
Speaker 1: any sci fi novel put to film. All of this
Speaker 1: has been predictable. As a matter of fact, all of
Speaker 1: it was predicted twenty and thirty years ago. But there
Speaker 1: is something about greed that has people overlook the human
Speaker 1: cost and tragedy so that they can continue to drill
Speaker 1: for oil, to frack the fuck out of this planet,
Speaker 1: the only home that we have, and continue fucking it
Speaker 1: up so that they can put money in their pockets
Speaker 1: and do dick measuring competitions into outer space, where guess what,
Speaker 1: We're just going to continue to transport our racism, our
Speaker 1: white supremacy, our misogyny, our capitalistic thinking of extraction out
Speaker 1: into outer space. Nothing's going to change. We're just going
Speaker 1: to continue to ruin the only home that we have,
Speaker 1: and those that can afford to postpone the devastation will
Speaker 1: for the rest of us. It will be Elyseum the
Speaker 1: other terrible movie, but basically lays out Earth has become
Speaker 1: the fucking ghetto in terms of no access, no water,
Speaker 1: systemic oppression, systemic everything, disease, all of these things. Elyseum
Speaker 1: is where the wealthy live, where there's no disease and
Speaker 1: there's just peace. And because they cherry picked the people
Speaker 1: that they want to exist in this place. These movies
Speaker 1: that were sci fi that were made back in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, and books like Octavia Butler's Parable series
Speaker 1: that was written in the early nineties seems so far fetched.
Speaker 1: But now we have arrived. We are watching people that
Speaker 1: have massive amounts of wealth not do anything to help
Speaker 1: anyone but themselves. They're not taxed in a way where
Speaker 1: we could take a portion of Elon Musk's over one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty billion dollars amount of money that this
Speaker 1: fucking man has. Imagine that actually having been taxed the
Speaker 1: way that it should and being able to put that
Speaker 1: money towards I don't know, a green new deal that
Speaker 1: the Republicans wanted to lambass. Because God forbid. We don't
Speaker 1: just deal with the ship that is the present. God forbid.
Speaker 1: We look forward to the future and we think to ourselves,
Speaker 1: what can we do so that future generations don't inhabit
Speaker 1: a trash heap. There was a really funny song that
Speaker 1: went viral in twenty twenty and it was called Earth
Speaker 1: is Ghetto. I Want to Leave, And it was like
Speaker 1: the catchiest fucking tune. It was put to everything Black
Speaker 1: woman sang it, and it was brilliant, and you know
Speaker 1: it was just this woman just sitting around waiting for
Speaker 1: aliens to come because this place is ghetto. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that the aliens are interested anymore because who
Speaker 1: would want to come here? It's like taking over Twitter
Speaker 1: after Elon Musk? Why is what is attractive about that job?
Speaker 1: I you know, these are things. I know that it
Speaker 1: seems crazy, but these are things that literally keep me
Speaker 1: up at night, which is I just did not I
Speaker 1: continue to say it, I did not think that I
Speaker 1: would be this young watching the planet just combust along
Speaker 1: with our political landscape, along with everything, all of these
Speaker 1: systems that have been put in place, all of these ideologies,
Speaker 1: all of this lies and nonsense just go up in
Speaker 1: the air at the same time. That's where we're watching
Speaker 1: a system's breakdown of everything and anything. And there's no nimbleness, folks,
Speaker 1: there's no adaptation. How do we move with the new
Speaker 1: information that we are receiving? How can we move? We're
Speaker 1: in fucking gridlock because we don't even believe the same reality.
Speaker 1: So how are we supposed to actually do anything to
Speaker 1: make significant change? You got fucking Republicans that are still
Speaker 1: talking about bringing back big call. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Meanwhile your constituents are drowning or freezing to death. It's
Speaker 1: really wild, and it's wildly terrifying because I'm not quite
Speaker 1: sure as I look at these pictures and these videos
Speaker 1: and listen to story after story, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: and soon it'll be fire season, and then it'll be
Speaker 1: hurricane and tornado season, and then guess what, there just
Speaker 1: won't be any seasons. It'll just be this consistency. Right.
Speaker 1: There was one episode what was it? Ah, it was
Speaker 1: a last season of Dear White People, and they I
Speaker 1: don't know why they decided to make it a musical,
Speaker 1: but nonetheless they fast forward to like I think it
Speaker 1: was twenty five or thirty years into the future, and
Speaker 1: the two characters this is at the height of quarantine
Speaker 1: and they have like these mechanical mass now that just
Speaker 1: come over your face. You tap an ear and they
Speaker 1: just like come up over your face, and stores and
Speaker 1: buildings are set with lockdown mode whenever the air is
Speaker 1: too polluted or it's raining and it's no longer normal rain,
Speaker 1: it's acid rain. You are locked into wherever you happen
Speaker 1: to be. If you are at a grocery store, if
Speaker 1: you're at a clothing store, if you're in your home,
Speaker 1: you are locked in until the air and the environment
Speaker 1: is clear enough for human beings to be able to
Speaker 1: go back outside, and it's to just become a part
Speaker 1: of normal, everyday behavior. You just never know what's coming.
Speaker 1: That's not too far off. Sadly, that isn't twenty and
Speaker 1: thirty years into the future. We already experienced and are
Speaker 1: continue to experience a global health pandemic that at us
Speaker 1: all shutter our doors and windows for three four six months,
Speaker 1: and in speaking of China, three years. I just feel
Speaker 1: like our leaders are not preparing for what's next. They
Speaker 1: barely are dealing with the ship that is in front
Speaker 1: of them, let alone preparing for what is coming. And
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, folks, what is coming next
Speaker 1: isn't good. And I don't see a part of the
Speaker 1: country that you can safely say, oh, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: there and I'll be safe from the tornado, from the fires,
Speaker 1: from the snow, hurricanes, from all of these catastrophic events.
Speaker 1: So we're just going to make it part of the course,
Speaker 1: kind of like losing five hundred people a day to
Speaker 1: COVID Ah, that's just the way that it is. Every
Speaker 1: time there is a major catastrophic storm, We're okay with
Speaker 1: a couple dozen people dying. We should care more. What
Speaker 1: this country, what this world is lacking is empathy, It's consciousness,
Speaker 1: and I just without it, I think that things are
Speaker 1: going to be getting far worse before they get better.
Speaker 1: And I just don't know what preparation for catastrophe, historic
Speaker 1: catastrophe looks like. For those of you, dear friends that
Speaker 1: are listening in areas that are being hardest hit, do
Speaker 1: the best that you can to stay safe, to stay protected,
Speaker 1: and God willing you're able to weather out these storms.
Speaker 1: You're definitely in my thoughts and I will continue to
Speaker 1: lift up these conversations, hoping that they fall on listening ears.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends, on woke
Speaker 1: a f as always, Power to the people and to
Speaker 1: all the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.