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Lea Lane

Location: Florida, USA
Birthday: August 26

Title: author, Travel Tales I Couldn't Put in the Guidebooks, available at Amazon.com and on Kindle

Bio: “I’ve discovered the secret of life,” Kay Thompson, the eccentric entertainer and “Eloise” author, once said. “A lot of hard work, a lot of sense of humor, a lot of joy and a lot of tra-la-la!” And that's been my life: As a travel writer for over 30 years, I've been around the block (more like around the world), and I write true stories about interesting people and places. (Check out my travel site, Travels With Lea.) I've lived an unconventional life in conventional trappings. Been a corporate VP, worked with foster kids, acted in an Indie ("Nurse 1"), was on Jeopardy!. I've been managing editor of a travel publication, written for the Times, and authored books. OS is my home, but I also blog on The Huffington Post, and I've contributed (mostly anonymously) to everything from encyclopedias to guidebooks. Married young, divorced late; married late, widowed early, I dated lots in-between -- and survived a scary illness. After being happily, peacefully solo for many years, I'm now happily married again. I founded and still edit www.sololady.com, a lifestyle Website for single women. I'm truly grateful for each precious day, each well-earned wrinkle, my family, my cat. Truth, laughter, friendship, late love. And this blog -- on this wonderful site!

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JULY 17, 2012 5:19PM

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drought open call, global warming, climate change, it's really a photo i took of the israeli desert

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Are we heading here?

Lea Lane

July 17, 2012 05:21 PM

Lea, let's all wish that flowers are here to stay, and logic can be finally used for the good of all of us. Earth must be loved!

Olga Stathi

July 17, 2012 05:33 PM

Wow! ~r

Joan H.

July 17, 2012 05:40 PM

If I were heading here, I'd drive up to New Jersey and take a right.

koshersalaami

July 17, 2012 05:52 PM

Actually with rising sea levels Manhattan will likely be inundated with between six to twenty feet of water.

jmac1949

July 17, 2012 06:19 PM

I am more afraid of the sea rising than than drought. Anyway, nothing much can be done in the now. M. Nature is in charge.

Ande Bliss

July 17, 2012 06:35 PM

You're right, guys. I will change this to the midwest.

Lea Lane

July 17, 2012 06:39 PM

Yikes!

Alysa Salzberg

July 17, 2012 07:22 PM

WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING!! I'd miss the Great Lakes!!!!! Well and when the East Coast goes underwater, I'll miss them too!! :(

Tinkerertink69

July 17, 2012 07:25 PM

Oh, I thought you had been in my back yard.

Not really. It's quite green despite. We get rain from time to time and I bathed the dog outside last week. I only water the veggies and flowers.

And yet it seems like we all react by cranking the a/c which just makes conditions worse. I can't live in these temps without it.

nerd cred

July 17, 2012 07:36 PM

Trouble is we don't know what we'll miss. Most of us will be long gone.

Lea Lane

July 17, 2012 07:49 PM

Various environments will move northward, Saskatchawan will become the bread basket.

Jeff L. Howe

July 17, 2012 08:00 PM

Wow, that is quite a photo.

SheilaTGTG55

July 17, 2012 10:00 PM

I imagine it will be totally under water here in S Fl by then too.

Kellylark

July 17, 2012 10:13 PM

It sure feel like that's what's in store. I doubt I'll live long enough to see the worst of it but imagine how the folks who do will look back on the decision-makers and their supporters who did nothing but misinform in the face of obvious and widespread scientific warnings.

Abrawang

July 17, 2012 10:25 PM

It's real tempting to say, eh, we'll all be dead, but I think somebody's going to hand me the bill. I'm convinced this will haunt me.

nilesite

July 17, 2012 11:36 PM

Google came out with its street view of the South Pole. I'm using it to hunt for my future homestead.

Stim

July 18, 2012 12:32 AM

I think it's kind of odd, we have had cyclical feast and famine for all of history, and then some longer cycles of deluge and drought, but overall, happening at least once in a lifetime. And we keep forgetting to stock up during the feast years instead of eating out the larder. Thank goodness politicians really understand their bible stories, and have focused on good legislation to make sure we never suffer again.
:)

Oryoki Bowl

July 18, 2012 12:36 AM

The Wrath of our Mother Earth is imminent. I see this planet just shaking us off like a dog shakes off fleas.

Linda Treiber

July 18, 2012 07:16 AM

Time to start singing Woody Guthrie songs.

Chicken Mãâàn

July 18, 2012 07:22 AM

Those who defame the science will burn and in two places.

r.

Jonathan Wolfman

July 18, 2012 07:44 AM

Most likely and we'll be told it's Mr. Obama's fault as well.

tg within

July 18, 2012 08:23 AM

Maybe not, but perhaps Mr. Obama should drive home the point that global warming DOES exist, despite what Rush Limbaugh says. Not a sexy campaign talking point, perhaps, but it's pretty undeniable now except to the religious Right.

neutron

July 18, 2012 08:37 AM

This has been predicted for years and now it's here and coming even more. People need to wake up and soon or the future will be much, much worse. More than we can imagine.

Mary Stanik

July 18, 2012 10:15 AM

Great shot, Lea. Can you let me know what I'm looking at here?

Jacob Sugarman

July 18, 2012 05:25 PM

Jacob, it's a shot I took of the Negev desert in Israel, overlooking the Dead Sea ( which is shrinking, btw).

Lea Lane

July 18, 2012 05:45 PM

I heading over to that water and take a swim...That is water there isn't it?

Algis Kemezys

July 19, 2012 10:36 AM

the earth has gone through cyclic climate change since it solidified into a planet with water on it, but the *rate* of change toward warming is dramatic now and absolutely attributable to human population and resulting carbon increase and the greenhouse effect. jeff howe's right: areas that were previously cold will warm and may become food-producing. the question is whether there will be enough of them to support the world's increasing population and, even perhaps more important, whether there will be enough potable water. i foresee dramatic population movements and maybe substantial die-off. from a cold scientific perspective, something has to reduce the overpopulation of the planet. my darwinian self sees this as a more-stark-than-usual example of the survival of the fittest, with humans continuing to live on a very, very changed earth. and you're right, lea, we won't be around to see what happens.

femme forte

July 21, 2012 12:41 PM

OH MY!

Dianne Schuch - Lindsey

July 21, 2012 02:32 PM

geez...and we in Texas are having a inslought of rain. It's like Seattle. Around 2 to 3 in the afternoon the thunder starts and by five it's soaked.

Unusual for Texas. We are usually suffering from drought while the rest of the nation floods.

The worst part about this is our tarmack highways get so blistering hot at high noon it takes the little rubber thingy right off your high heels as they dig in. When the rain hits it's like a sauna and when it stops, if it is during the early afternoon hours it is WORSE outside then before the rain.

Dianne Schuch - Lindsey

July 24, 2012 08:06 PM