It seems bizarre to read that firefighting crews from as far away as Montana are being flown to the Hudson Valley and simultaneously multi-billion dollar repairs to the Catskills/NYC reservoir system are paused due to severe drought. Like the smoke that filled our skies a year ago, are droughts and wildfires our new normal? Climate scientist Anton Seimon weighs in from his hilltop home in Columbia County and veteran fly fisherman and conservationist Todd Spire checks in from Greene/Ulster counties on just how unusual these symptoms of a changing climate are ... and why we should probably get used to them.



