California: Here Be Monsters – Issues & Insights
"Before California slips into the ocean after a massive earthquake, as some predicted decades ago that it would, it looks like it will first become America’s very own undeveloped nation.
California has endured its share of Old Testament calamities in the modern world.
Yet at times it seems that it will surely succumb to disasters created by its own hand.
There are real monsters loose in the streets.
Rats, “an army” of them “millions strong,” reports KOMO News, have “overthrown” Los Angeles.
Not long ago, “officials briefly closed part of City Hall after reporting that rodents had invaded the building,” said California Healthline.
“And where there are rats,” says KOMO reporter Eric Johnson, “there is disease.”
Norway rats and roof rats, neither native to California, carry infected fleas and spread typhus, a disease “that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages” and has now “flared” in Los Angeles..."
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