As my latest 'sweeps month' (May, 2014) continues, I offer the first of some classic artwork of mine - that I'd recently rediscovered, while cleaning up my cluttered condominium...

During the mid-1990s, when I was still a 'Waiting Lister' for the 'funny animal' APAzine "Rowrbrazzle", and I had already been a new resident of Florida for over a year, I wanted to share my experiences with the weather conditions I'd seen during those first twenty months...

They included a tornado that had touched down in downtown Miami, one or two hurricanes that came very close to the Atlantic side of the peninsula, and a number of thunderstorms which cause street flooding (to the point that motorists couldn't tell where the roads ended and where the canals began)!

One piece of bitter irony: I'd just found this 1995 drawing within 48 hours of the flooding that took place this week in the Florida panhandle (which caused some death and destruction in a few cities along the Gulf Coast).

And, to add further insult to injury, last month in Miami, a group of scientists had gathered to discuss the effects of 'global warming' (or 'climate change', or whatever you want to call it nowadays), as it now causes 'sea level rise'... with most of south Florida running the potential of becoming the first areas in the continental USA to be submerged by the middle of the 21st Century!

Who would've guessed that this drawing from nearly two decades ago might be a premonition of things to come for my area?!

'Rob Cat' and artwork (C) Jed Martinez