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Earlier today on the expressway as we made our way home, we started listening to AM Radio. Stopping upon the weather station, not much of what the orator was actually audible through the cracks of static and intermittent feedback, but one constant phrase stuck out as it was nonchalantly hammered over our heads.
"Mostly sunny today with-"
Then continued the crackles and overpowering weight of radio noise. It was bleak. Static noise and feedback isn't something particularly foreign to us, but that was exactly it. Here we had the persistent repetitious painting of a sunny day, a brief comment on the state of affairs concerning the tragedy elsewhere from Hurricane Irma and then a roaring sea of cacophony. Mostly Sunny didn't stop though. Mostly Sunny was only concerned about his painting, no matter the quality of his radio signal.
There is an eeriness in the return to a state of tranquil breezes and pleasurable warmth from the sun, just after massive devastation of the county below us, and shortly after entire islands were swallowed by the storm.
And there is absolutely a strange and surreal perversion made apparent once you realize that Mostly Sunny was the same man telling Miami-Dade County to run for the hills just one week before on his weather station.
released September 16, 2017