Disaster 10.5

[cactuswatcher]

Or some such name. I didn't see anything except the tail end of this 'jewel,' while waiting for the late news to come on. The continent split apart east of the Rockies for reasons only suitable for disaster flicks, I presume. Be that as it may, a funny thing was how the rift between the pieces filled with water. Although there was a split all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to what looked like a greatly enlarged Hudson Bay, all the water flowed north from the Gulf, none flowed at all from the Bay. Don't know whether it's supposed to be commentary or just was lazy people in the art department (you could hardly call it special effects). The other funny thing was President Beau Bridges weeping over split milk.

What wasn't so funny was a rerun Nova episode on the PBS channel about the Congolese city of Goma sitting literally on top of a volcanic field. Serious volcanic activity, carbon dioxide gas filling low valleys and silently killing everyone, people building homes in the likely path of the next eruption. Truth is scarier than fiction.