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Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ...
Hello from the middle of the country, drenched in water while so many other places are drought-dry and wildfire-wicked.
St. Louis' flash flooding made the national news this week thanks to overnight catastrophic rain.
When we went to bed on Monday, the forecast was for maybe an inch: we crossed our fingers that come Tuesday, we wouldn't need to water the flowers and vegetables.
In the middle of the night, the first flash flood warning blared through our phones. Four hours later, the rain gauge in the garden topped out at an unbelievable eight inches. Other parts of the metro area got as many as twelve freaking inches of rain.
Basements filled. Storm water systems backed up. Streets became rivers. Cars floated. People evacuated. Later in the day, it began to rain again: another inch. Our wet-weather creek drained for two days.
This is the world of extreme weather caused by climate change.
It's not a "future" risk. It's happening right now, this week. As I write, word arrived of deadly flooding in eastern Kentucky.
That's two separate so-called "thousand-year floods" five hundred miles apart in three days.
Stay safe, people. Stay safe.
About the Photo By Popular Request, a Little Insight into the Top Image: I took this photo during St. Louis' last big flood in 2017, one of two "hundred year floods" in 18 months. It was a slow-moving flood with rising waters accumulating from across the Missouri River/Mississippi River watershed in their inexorable passage to the Gulf of Mexico. I kid you not, shown here is "Water Street" underwater in Fenton, Missouri along the Meramec River, many feet above flood stage.
PICK THREE
- THE RECIPE Roasted Eggplant Salad with Tomato-Caper Salsa Gorgeous make-ahead salad.
- ANOTHER TAKE Ratatouille The classic French baked vegetables, simplified.
- THE RECIPE Tropical Pork Tenderloin A Quick Supper, a bit of sweet, a bit of heat especially designed to
- PAIR WITH Tropical Salad Supper Itself a stand-alone Quick Supper, bright with citrus & tropical fruit.
- THE RECIPE Grilled Steak with Tomato-Avocado Salad in a Warm Poblano-Bacon Vinaigrette A hearty salad supper, steak with a mess of lettuce, tomatoes, avocado in a poblano-bacon vinaigrette.
- ANOTHER TAKE Easy-Easy Marinated Flank Steak Just two ingredients and about ten minutes of hands-on time.
Kitchen Parade is written by second-generation food columnist Alanna Kellogg and features fresh, seasonal dishes for every-day healthful eating and occasional indulgences.
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