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November 9, 2009

We’re thinking of our friends in El Salvador today…

Bill McKibben

A large group of schoolchildren in matching blue uniforms with white collars raise their hands enthusiastically in a covered outdoor area, creating an energetic classroom scene.

…like this Girl Scout troop at a 350 rally:

A large group of schoolchildren in matching blue uniforms with white collars raise their hands enthusiastically in a covered outdoor area, creating an energetic classroom scene.

Today a truly nasty hurricane, Ida, blew through the tiny country, leaving more than a hundred dead, and many still missing in mudslides triggered by massive rains, in some places measuring more than 15 inches. The country’s president said today:  "the damage sustained by our country is incalculable". Ida is now in the Gulf of Mexico, and may make landfall in the United States later this week.