All but two states are facing a drought. Brooklyn's Prospect Park on fire last night.
All but two states are facing a drought. Brooklyn's Prospect Park on fire last night.
Bricolage is a Vietnamese restaurant on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. It’s a sweet place to enjoy a date night without having to leave our new neighborhood.
5th Avenue is five blocks down the slope from beautiful Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s answer to Manhattan’s Central Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted who also designed Humboldt Park in our old Chicago neighborhood.
My favorite spot in Prospect Park in on a little hill near the Picnic House. It is shaded and has views of two meadows to the north and to the south and to the wooded areas just across the way.
As we walked home from Bricolage last night there was a helicopter flying over the Park. It was circling over the Park and we wondered why.
When we got home and closer to the Park we found out.
Prospect Park, or at least two acres of it, was on fire.
New York is under a drought alert.
New Jersey is fighting massive brush fires.
I’m used to drought and forest fires from when I was a kid in Los Angeles.
But Prospect Park is not the Santa Monica Mountains.
It is smack in the middle of the biggest city in the United States.
Plus, roughly 257 million Americans are living under a severe drought warning across the country leaving only Alaska and Kentucky unaffected.
Climate change is real.
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t think so.