Roads surfaces are soft and corners are starting to rut; by next month there will be many surfaces in need of replacement.
Pipes burst open as the ground around them shrinks through dehydration of the soils. Gas escapes, explosions happen; water escapes and thousands of litres of precious drinking water goes down the roadside and into the drains.
Low rainfall has placed our area at risk with reservoir levels really low even before we reach high summer.
Is this the start of times to come? Where will our temperatures be in 10 years time? In 20 years?
A friend of mine gave birth to her second child some 6 months ago. Her daughter will reach 18 in 2040, where will she be? Will the South East be viable? When its 2047 she will be 25 years old and wanting to have children herself. Will she?
This sounds doom and gloom but I'm not meaning this in those terms, I'm just ruminating.
Now we have food shortages beginning to bite as wild fires hit farmland and decimate already dwindling harvests.
Root crops wither in the ground, will we get a potato harvest this year?
If the rains fail us this winter, will we be able to plant viable seeds and them flourish?
There's a squeeze on energy prices and as they spiral almost beyond most people's reach, cookers, heating and lights go off on many houses. What will happen when the winter comes? Fuel poverty coupled with food restrictions will lead to a life more resembling the 50s and 60s of the last century rather than 2022/3.
Chances are I will live to 2035, motor cars as we know will be fazing out, central heating will be/have been changing its complexion........how much else will change?
Will I still be living here?
In this house?
Where/what will you be doing in 2035?