The Time Period

CityGypsy11, "Time Travel Haikus 5-7-5" 09/07/2007 via flickr.com
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The story of the SoCalGas leak remained under the radar for months. It began in October, and the official announcement came on the 23rd. Yet even local news stories took until December to begin reporting on the story, like this story on December 2nd, 2015, reported by the L.A. Times on the first relocation effort. The most recent report on the relocation efforts was made on February 3rd of this year by a local news station, abc7. It seems as if the relocation effort has not increased as the amount of methane spilling out of the well, rather, it has decreased.

The biggest national news stories on October 23rd, when the leak was first announced, were talks of politics, of Benghazi and Syria. The largest national story, in the midst of the running for the preliminaries, was on the all too famous Donald Trump, as reported by the national news network CBS. Everyone is concerned about what Donald Trump, presidential candidate, will do next. What crazy shenanigans will he be up to this time? On January 6th, when Governor Jerry Brown announced a state of emergency, the biggest story was on the Powerball. Americans are more concerned about their profit than their environment, as is the case with SoCalGas.

On October 23rd, 2015, Hurricane Patricia was heading toward Mexico at 130 mph. Once a category 5, it had now weakened to a category 4. While the world was focused on the storm approaching toward the east coast of Mexico, people on the west coast of California were worried about the gas leak polluting the atmosphere. On January 6th, the world turned it's focus to the opposite side of the world to North Korea, who had announced that it had launched it's first nuclear rocket.

The nation, the world, the state of California, they all seem to be unconcerned with the well that is spilling out natural gas by the minute. Each story also seems to be about the bad, Donald Trump, North Korea, and the Hurricane. The world focuses on the negative, but the negative that effects them. The community of Porter Ranch is facing a negative beyond comprehension, yet the world turns a blind eye to them. This leak has the potential to effect us all through green house gasses, yet we don't seem to care.